In other words, if everyone did the radical thing and asserted that they cannot be threatened until they do something they don't want to do, democracy is the only thing that could possibly work.
Anything that's not democracy ultimately rests on threatening people into compliance. Often implicitly ("be a team player and take this third overtime in the month because I'm under pressure from upper management"), sometimes explicitly ("I call the shots on hiring and firing, so you want to stay on good footing with me").
Anything that's not democracy ultimately rests on threatening people into compliance. Often implicitly ("be a team player and take this third overtime in the month because I'm under pressure from upper management"), sometimes explicitly ("I call the shots on hiring and firing, so you want to stay on good footing with me").