I’m Andres Acevedo, and this is The Market Exit. In this essay, I talk about one of the biggest, yet strangely overlooked, problems in modern life: the way we organize work.Today, most of us spend our lives in non-democratic companies, taking orders from managers we did not choose, while external owners reap the profits of our labor. It’s easy to believe this is just how work has always been and how it must be—but that is not true.In this video, I dive into how our current system came to be, why it was criticized from the very beginning, and what a better alternative could look like. I explore the idea of economic democracy and employee ownership—solutions that could make work less miserable, strengthen democracy, reduce inequality, and even make companies perform better.I also reflect on why this transformation hasn’t happened yet, and what each of us can do today to move toward a more democratic economy.
