> There are other terms the authors could use: oligopoly, oligarchy, inverted totalitarianism, plutocracy, soft despotism, rent-seeking. Those are motivations

> There are other terms the authors could use: oligopoly, oligarchy, inverted totalitarianism, plutocracy, soft despotism, rent-seeking. Those are motivations behind centralisation, but they won't all apply to all attempts at centralisation. There may be some situations where none of those particular motivations are the apparent reason behind a particular attempt at centralisation.[0] Using any one motivation, rather than the descriptive "centralisation", to describe the phenomena will necessarily miss instances of centralisation that the discussion should apply to. Using a long list of motivations every time would be unwieldy, and could still miss instances that should be referenced. [0] e.g. Signal https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/