1) Most businesses in capitalism are owned by investors, not by workers. They are not democracies, not even in communism where they are supposedly owned by ever

1) Most businesses in capitalism are owned by investors, not by workers. They are not democracies, not even in communism where they are supposedly owned by everyone. 2) Cooperatives are what you are looking for. Why aren't there more of them? No founder ever wants to share the initial investment. Is it a universal human weakness? I don't know. Why aren't the very few that exist growing to be more successful than a small local niche thing? Probably because democracies work best for small groups and progresively degrade as the number of people increase. 3) It works as indended. The people that are (temporarily) interested in the success of the organization, and with the power to change it if it looks like it's failing, are not interested in long-term success. As long as company's stock can be sold, only short term profits matter. Owners of family businesses are more likely to listen to low level employees, but they're still autoritarian.