Comment by danaris

You are talking about what is.

Shimman is talking about what could be.

Responding to "hey, we could make our workplaces better by making it possible to elect our bosses rather than having them imposed on us as absolute dictators within the workplace" with "but you can already choose your boss—all you have to do is abandon all your coworkers, your salary, your routine, and likely your home and geographical region to go pick a different unaccountable absolute dictator" just shows that you aren't even having the same conversation that shimman is having.

And the worst part is you don't even seem to recognize it.

You got yourself into an extremely lucky position one time, and now that's made you think that's a viable solution for everyone who has problems with their bosses—and that anyone who thinks otherwise is just "not bringing value".

The only possible way to make our workplaces systemically better is by collective action. Unions. Workplace democracy. Stronger labor protections.

Everything else is just crab-bucket mentality.