Bezos is in his position because of his competency. He built the thing. Democracy is not a virtue in a workplace.
Either you're diluting what Slavery means or proposing the former which is false.
Every single employee at Amazon is free to go work for Walmart, Uber, local lumber yard, grocery stores or whatever.
I really don't like democracy mixing with my business. It's the best, terrible system we have for when we have no other choice but to come to a mutual decision. But it really should be your last option.
Perhaps that those power structures are so natural to us implies just how successful they've been in our history. And not in the sense that fear is a good motivator, but because the reality is that most principals aren't all that far removed from their agents.