In large groups, an individual in a position of leadership with the best interest of the project in mind is best.
But it doesn't work this way. The person who gets into the position of leadership (usually CEO) is hired by a board of directors who are pressured by shareholders to make more profit.
The CEO gets paid huge amounts of money to find ways to maximize the profit the company is making. If the economy is having difficulties at the time, one of the first places to cut costs is workers.
Are you misunderstanding me? The leverage I'm talking about is economic worth.
What economic worth is there for poor workers in capitalism?
They're extremely disposable which is why places can afford to have really high turnover rates.
The owner and the worker both provide for the operation, because the owners provide leadership, infrastructure, and finance, wheras the workers provide labor and expertise in the crafting of the product. In this sense, they form a symbiotic relationship, and both need each other.
Yes ofcourse they both need each other, but the workers are fragmented (no unions) and therefore hold a lot less power than their employers who have a larger amount of capital. At which point it's hard to even
prosecute them for anything illegal they do in their business.
Shareholders are contributors to the business, the same as everyone else. I don't necessarily agree that everyone operates this way, and I don't necessarily agree that it's even a good idea, but this is more or less addressed by my previous points. Leverage, man. Leverage.
Shareholders are the primary force that influences businesses to take allocate their resources differently. Shareholders have no incentive to maintain
good conditions for workers because it's often a deterrent for profit.
Frankly, I'm not even sure where innovators fit in to that sort of system, so let's start there.
Where do innovators fit into the current system?
If you have a good idea you go to a bank or kickstarter or you talk to people with expertise who you know. If your idea is good enough then it gets support and help in funding. This wouldn't change in a more socialist system.
All of this makes me question though, what kind of changes do you advocate for? Because I feel like they would be pretty in-line with socialist policies