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> Democracy could only work effectively if most of the population is very well educated.

Certainly if you're looking at tech jobs, the "population" is reasonably well educated.

For business decisions, no. You'd be surprised at how many employees at Google don't really understand the process of how Google makes money. They offer little internal seminars so they can learn how.

The last thing you want is a bunch of smart engineers voting on business decisions they don't have the background to fully grok.

So I guess we should take the overwhelming majority in this threat rejecting the idea of democratizing private companies, and the at least skeptical attitude towards unions as indication that both are likely to be good ideas.

I'm talking about education in a much bigger scope. Not referring to the Kickstarter situation at all; Tech education is not enough. I'm talking about political, social, emotional, economical etc, education; This level of education is a life long pursue. Schools are not enough. Internet is not enough;

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