Notion on a better system

…The most important thing today is for economic units to maintain – or, rather, renew – their relationship with individuals, so that the work those people perform has human substance and meaning, so that people can see into how the enterprise they work for works, have a say in that, and assume responsibility for it. Such enterprises must have – I repeat – a human dimension: people must be able to work in them as people, as beings with a soul and a sense of responsibility, not as robots, regardless of how primitive or highly intelligent they may be…

…I would tend to favor an economic system based on the maximum possible plurality of many decentralized, structurally varied, and preferably small enterprises that respect the specific nature of different localities and different traditions and that resist the pressures of uniformity by maintaining a plurality of modes of ownership and economic decision-making, from private through various types of cooperative and shareholding ventures, collective ownerships, right up to state ownership…

Vaclav Havel (1990) Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, p.13-18.