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It was a tough job to set up a new business, and Meredith explained to me that she was working ten hours a day, every day, for the first year.She had more responsibility in this job than in her old one.But Meredith noticed something surprising.She has some ideas, and they fit closely with what I’d learned about the science of depression and anxiety earlier.As I sat with Meredith and watched the bike repairs happening all around us, I remembered what I had learned from Michael Marmot, the social scientist who carried out the research into British civil servants that showed the ways in which our work can make us sick, physically or mentally.It’s not the work itself that makes you sick.It’s three other things.The guys who fixed bikes before fix bikes now.The guys who did publicity before do publicity now.But changing the structure radically changed how they felt about the work itself.Josh, when I interviewed him on another day, told me why he thinks that is.You don’t have free speech.You don’t have any sort of voting. Anxiety and depression seem to him, he says, rational reactions to the situation, as opposed to some kind of biological break.This way of living and working is, he explains, an attempt to deal with that problem.4 When you have no say over your work, it becomes dead and meaningless.But when you control it, you can begin to infuse it with meaning.Of course, they all told me, they still have bad days.This isn’t a magical solution.But when I started working here, I didn’t have trouble sleeping anymore, Meredith says, and she’s echoed by several of her colleagues.In the old system, you have one person’s brain on every problem, and he might listen to others if they’re lucky.Here, you have nine people’s brains on every problem.At bars and parties, when Meredith tells people about this work, they’re often incredulous.Everyone’s been in a family, or on a team.You know how it works.But all of a sudden, when you think about it in the context of making money or running a business, everyone’s head explodes about it.But I don’t feel like it’s that complicated.This isn’t a foreign concept.You live in America.But, she explains, the business is our livelihood, so if we all just sat around and did nothing, then it would be nothing and we would get nothing out of it. But she thinks it goes deeper than that.From this experience, she has learned that people want to work.Everybody wants to work.Everybody wants to feel useful, and have purpose.5 The humiliation and control of so many workplaces can suppress that, or drive it out of people, but it’s always there, and it reemerges in the right environment.A major study by scientists at Cornell University investigated 320 small businesses.The businesses closer to the democratic model grew, on average, four times more than the others.6 Why?It definitely feels very rewarding when you show up and see the building and don’t think of it as the place where you come in to put your hours, but as the thing you’ve contributed to making.