e.g. if everyone were poor, a handout would be "yay!!" but since some people don't need it it's "that's not fair, those are my taxes!"
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helplessness seems to be a necessary component of strong centralization. a central entity can more easily make decisions for the masses when a minority isn't complaining that they already helped themselves.
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e.g. a structural defect in a community of houses where some have already made the repairs themselves vs the HOA petitioning for the builder to fix the issue. those who have already fixed it themselves would want re-imbursement. but what if one guy spend 20k and one guy spent 2k?
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the original insight for centralization is 'programming makes things easy' but in reality it realizes 'edge cases make programming hard.'
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life is one big edge case : / destructive programs are so much easier to write.
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