I find this viewpoint astonishing personally, but that might have to do with my upbringing and cultural background.
> There are 3 million co-ops around the world – with 1.2 billion members.
> That means 12% of the people on Earth are part of a co-op.
With co-ops being just one particularly prominent form of democratic business structure, workplace democracy is not quite as marginal a notion as you might think.
I actually like working at a corporation because I don't have to play politics or worry about parts of the business I'm not involved in. It would be hell if I had to spend my evenings in meetings about foreign policy issues or disciplinary hearings for employees in other departments.
Not that world politics should have much to do with company matters
Whether or not that’s “right” or “wrong” is an entirely separate matter, of course.
But it doesn’t surprise me, not in the least.
All the resources you consume (food, land, money) are controlled by these various organizations which you must submit to, or suffer their consequences. And submitting to them empowers them further.