My co-founder and I started this company with shared values about worker ownership and democratic decision-making, but as we've grown we keep defaulting to hierarchical structures because they're faster and neither of us knows how to build what we actually believe in.
More people experience this than they realize.
The gap between espoused values and enacted systems reveals the difficulty of creating alternative structures without models or experience.
“Where Are You with Ethical consumption?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.