In do-ocracies, generally the ‘revealed preferences’ of the group members is pretty obvious. The things the ‘group wants’ are readily revealed to be those things that the group members actually act to achieve or acquire.
And, as a matter of how do-ocracies form initially, they typically ‘accrete’ around a single person or a small group of people that are already actively working on something. Think of a small open source programming project. Usually the project is started by a single person and whatever they actually work on is what they ‘want’ to work on. Often, when other people suggest changes, the initial person (who is likely still the ‘project leader’) will respond along the lines of “Pull requests welcome!”, which is basically equivalent to “Feel free to work on the changes yourself and send them to me to review.”. And, sometimes, a new contributor will work on the changes first, before even discussing the possibility. And then, after submitting the changes to review, the project leader or other participants might object to the changes, but, by default, anyone is free to make changes themselves (tho typically not anyone can actually make changes directly to the ‘authoritative version’).
In do-ocracies, generally the ‘revealed preferences’ of the group members is pretty obvious. The things the ‘group wants’ are readily revealed to be those things that the group members actually act to achieve or acquire.
And, as a matter of how do-ocracies form initially, they typically ‘accrete’ around a single person or a small group of people that are already actively working on something. Think of a small open source programming project. Usually the project is started by a single person and whatever they actually work on is what they ‘want’ to work on. Often, when other people suggest changes, the initial person (who is likely still the ‘project leader’) will respond along the lines of “Pull requests welcome!”, which is basically equivalent to “Feel free to work on the changes yourself and send them to me to review.”. And, sometimes, a new contributor will work on the changes first, before even discussing the possibility. And then, after submitting the changes to review, the project leader or other participants might object to the changes, but, by default, anyone is free to make changes themselves (tho typically not anyone can actually make changes directly to the ‘authoritative version’).