Society and structures do tend towards centralization (at least on a local or short-term scale, not a physics guy, but entropy seems to say something over time)

Society and structures do tend towards centralization (at least on a local or short-term scale, not a physics guy, but entropy seems to say something over time). Concepts like path-dependency seem to have an explanation for this, but they also stand in contrast to "access to the maximum possible future opportunity space". Many structures are clearly sub-optimal; organizations often crystallize in ways that maximize nothing at all but short-term laziness. They centralize by choosing paths that are convenient, not necessarily those that offer the most opportunity.