Wow, people are really running away with the political analogy used here. Calm down folks, they're not ragging on decentralized systems. If you read and compre

Wow, people are really running away with the political analogy used here. Calm down folks, they're not ragging on decentralized systems. If you read and comprehend the definitions in the article, you'll see that it's a fully general solution that allows for emergent organization through market systems or cooperation. You can bake those things into the strategies and utility functions of the actors. It's just a fun and descriptive name for the difference between an idealized central controller (which can force everyone into a configuration that maximizes an arbitrary global utility function) and the lack of such a controller. The outcomes could be the same, they could be different. If you factor in the negative utility of having the central authority in the first place, you can game-theoretically justify your particular favored level of anti-authoritarianism.