centralization of power

  • Suppose the status quo is [centralized authoritarian rule
  • Often people think that there are all kinds of problems with centralized things, so let’s make something decentralized.
  • But that centralized structure wasn’t there from the beginning.
  • From a decentralized state came its centralized structure.
  • We will call this “centralization of power.
  • Since centralization happened in the past, if you create something new and decentralized now, it will also become centralized.
  • We need to determine why centralization happened and stop its causes.

After listening to the presentation on creating a non-centralized platform at the Unexplored Achievement Reporting Conference 2018, I was talking with great river at the cafe and heard his point that “even if you create a non-centralized service, centralization can occur within it”, which was an eye-opener for me, so I took notes.

Principle 1 - network effect exists.

  • A network that grows to a certain size grows even larger.
  • An oligopoly by a single network will occur. →This could be a pattern of “an oligopoly by a single network has occurred, but that network is operated de-centrally rather than by a specific operator”. Isn’t the network effect independent of centralization for the users of the network?

Principle 2 - the rich get richer and richer There is positive feedback (Matthew effect)

  • Resource oligopoly occurs

Principle 3


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