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Originally Posted by Alex
Every year, in support of the great Greek tradition of ostrakismos, management allows the firing of one employee based on popular vote of all the employees. Please keep in mind that the "winner" in each of the last 5 years was a frequent microwave popcorn eater.
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Fascinating. The entire point of
ostrakismos is to prevent any individual in a democracy from having too much power. Could you form a voting block and get rid of your CEO? If not then it rather much goes against the grain of the entire concept.
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Originally Posted by History nerds
The adverse vote simply implied that his power was so great as to be injurious to the state . Ostracism must therefore be carefully distinguished from exile in the Roman sense, which involved loss of property and status
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What you describe sounds more like the Roman sense of exile. Complete loss of title plus banishment forever.