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One of Fukuyama’s interesting insights is that democracy has always expanded via trickle-down empowerment, not bottom-up revolution… basically elites sorta defecting on other elites by empowering next ring of masses for temporary advantage but then they can’t take it back 🤔
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I’m wondering whether decentralization progresses via a similar ratchet… centralized things ceding ring after ring of coordination functions to decentralized things
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Why would you conclude that from the relentless increase in centralised authority in advanced economies over the last two centuries?
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200 years ago every village had its own time. Most weights and measures were local and conventional. Legal and political disputes were resolved at a local level because *that’s all there was*. Claiming today’s world is especially “decentralised” is rather at odds with the facts.
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