diff --git a/Open Letter to Google.md b/Open Letter to Google.md index 0dc2a0ed7..300d0eeec 100644 --- a/Open Letter to Google.md +++ b/Open Letter to Google.md @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ With this letter, I want to make the argument that the project I started persona As you read these proposals, please think and report back optionally: if not these proposals, which? This, in a nutshell, is the spirit of the [[Agora]] I am proposing and have been trying to build: it is a [[commons]] focused on finding [[rational]] [[incremental improvements]] achievable by its community. Put another way: if you share proposals for the betterment of society, our endeavors together, or any interesting subset of them, an Agora can be defined that will be interested by default. -## What the Agora and Google are +## The Agora and Google as they are currently An Agora, in short, is a platform and pro-social device that tries to be [[free]], [[fair]] and [[alive]] for its community (its "users"). @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ Google is a corporation and a community of employees (traditionally "Googlers", Being mostly profit driven as of the time of writing, Google need not be free at all times; but in this letter I make the argument that, given its position of relevance and control at this stage of the evolution of the [[first known internet]], it *should* try to become increasingly fair ("democratic") within available market-reality-bound possibilities. +## The Agora and Google as they could be + + ## Google should experiment again with being more democratic Most corporations have historically not been democratic at all; governance wise they tend to be (or become) highly hierarchical, in particular as they age and emergent hierarchies solidify and negotiate market pressures. As far as governmental structures go, companies are stuck in the time of [[kings]] and [[feudalism]].