This article feels more like it's trying to explain why centralization is a thing, and less trying to show why centralization is a good thing. In a way this is

This article feels more like it's trying to explain why centralization is a thing, and less trying to show why centralization is a good thing. In a way this is still true, centralization will always overpower any opposing force for decentralization, so there's not much of a point in making things decentralized. But the entire article hinges on this one point, which I want to address: "Technology is a concentrating force. It always has been." Technology is not a concentrating force. This is a misattribution. The economy, more specifically the economies of scale is a concentrating force. Technology may have the symptom of a trend towards concentration of power, but it itself is not the cause. What technology does do is provide businesses with unprecedented global reach, and this is the driving force behind the remaining points in this article and the observation of massive centralization under technology. Technology gives you, amongst other things, the power to centralize, but is not the reason for centralization itself.