Really important point imo. Children’s education too. Schools resemble prisons resemble factories and all that jazz. Self determination is an important part of being human. We need to keep avenues open for people to meaningfully participate in the shape of their own lives and communities.

…the workplace is becoming a privileged laboratory for a wider political culture. A world in which people are constantly tracked, assessed through opaque systems, ranked according to metrics they do not control, and denied meaningful participation in the rules governing them is not just a new model of work. It is an apprenticeship in authoritarianism. When people spend most of their waking lives in environments governed by unilateral authority and pervasive surveillance, it should not surprise us if democratic dispositions are weakened beyond the workplace as well.

No time to read this right now, but it seems to me capitalist corporate structures are usually inherently anti-Democratic. Typical late stage capitalism and all that...