> rather than having their allowable contributions restricted by an intermediary who will usually use that power for extortionist purposes and force the other person to serve his career goals
What you're describing is a borderline sociopath, not a result of closed allocation.
You make a lot of conjectures. Do you have any evidence or verifiable experience to back up these claims:
> Employee and company actually have a common interest that is typically thrown under the bus in a closed-allocation environment.
> Also, the quality of projects that exists under closed allocation is inferior because people can't vote with their feet.
> However, open allocation is almost always strictly superior to the alternative, which is closed allocation.
Sounds like you should be a management consultant.
> Is that a threat?
Sigh...there's your persecution complex again. I wish I had the power to delete your posts from my own feed (perhaps a browser extension?).
Michael, I mean this very, very sincerely, and out of genuine concern -- please do consider the possibility of talking to a counselor. I don't know a thing about you or your situation beyond your posts here, but I've seen you bring up suicide in another thread (not to imply that you're suicidal), and your inability to move on from an ostensibly bad experience at Google suggests to me that you might well benefit from a professional ear.
Edit: I'm only saying to you what I would if I knew you in person.