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“Hierarchies are bad and we shouldn’t have them” or “we don’t have a hierarchy/pecking order in our group/organization” makes me uncomfortable TBH because humans are social animals and when you get a certain number of social animals together a hierarchy *always* emerges.
So the idea of, say, a totally non-hierarchical system of governance or project team or something like that feels very “lies neurotypical people tell me.”
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Look the way I see it, in a system of governance there is either going to be an explicitly defined hierarchy with clear roles, chains of command, and (hopefully) mechanisms of accountability, or there’s going to ne something that everyone *says* is a flat structure where everyone’s equal but is really a hidden hierarchy with unspoken rules and not only does my ADHD ass hate that kind of thing, it’s a recipe for abuse and dysfunction.
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Hierarchy is not necessarily bad, a clear hierarchy is in fact good, and in situations where the group needs a quick decision it’s vital to have a designated person “in charge.”
POWER IMBALANCES and lack of accountability are bad.
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