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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Simon: “Hierarchy is the architecture of complexity.” Decentralists: “There is too much hierarchy! Let’s flatten the structure and build new ecologies!” A lot of crypto-decentralists: “...okay, so long as we still keep most of the power lol”
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Replying to @generativist
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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Yea. It’s an impossible balance. Only anarchists are serious about the hierarchy flattening; but, they’re almost always going to be squeezed out by the ones scrambling for power.
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