A lot of people who romanticize decentralization — me included, probably — see the incredible fluid potential of less rigid and lopsided power structures... ...but also want to capture such positions for themselves, a contradiction.
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"decentralization" often de-facto devolves into "re-centralization"
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Especially when the people building decentralization want to end up at the center.
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This is a contradiction I've noticed in myself, for sure. I'm simultaneously pro decentralization and working for a company with a fairly traditional power hierarchy, which I somewhat aggressively try to climb.
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I think you have to *have* power, though, before you get to make decisions about how to distribute it. You have to wrest it out of the existing hierarchies and make those things democracies or collectives (hopefully in ways that don't significantly sacrifice effectiveness)
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