On 1/2/22 6:16 PM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via At-Large wrote:
I have real issues taking seriously people who refer to "multistakeholderism" ... Or should we get back to absolute monarchy? :-)
I'd put it closer to an oligarchy or governance by trade guild rather than monarchy. I dusted off an old blog thing on the subject that I started writing six years ago (!) but never published. I don't consider it one of my better pieces of writing. But here it is: Democracy Versus Stakeholderism https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/stakeholder_sock_puppet/ (I didn't go into some potentially intriguing applications of the stakeholder model. For instance here in the US we have some states, such as Texas, that are essentially eliminating rights of women to obtain abortions. If we were to fully honor the stakeholder model then only real "stakeholders" in that matter are women, and thus under a true stakeholder model of governance, women ought to be the only ones who would have a voice in the decision to enact that law or not.) --karl--