Coordination is power.
- Coordination is power.
- Imagine there's a company with a widely-used product that nearly everyone who uses it has a problem with.
- For example, Terms of Service that are too onerous.
- The millions of users have more power than the company... if they coordinated perfectly.
- But that's impossible.
- The company can operate as one coherent entity without defection.
- Employees are literally paid to operate in the way the company wants them to.
- A swarm can't.
- The more open-ended / ambiguous / self-directed the employees are, the more that the company can't get them to work in lock-step with the one mandated position.
- But still, coordination decisions on concrete issues are many many many orders of magnitude easier within a company than a swarm.
- In the limit, they can always fire you if you don't get on board.