To extend the argument, one of the original military motivations for the design of the internet was resilience of the network (relative to radio, IIRC, where re

To extend the argument, one of the original military motivations for the design of the internet was resilience of the network (relative to radio, IIRC, where relying on a central broadcaster would be prone to failure if the broadcaster was taken down). If one node goes down, even if it's bad news for that node's consumers, the network itself remains resilient. If we shift that analogy back into the economic discussion, then instead of three places controlling bread production you break up large bakeries (or make running large bakeries untenable) and incentivize a plethora of small bakeries so that when some fail, others can organically fill the gaps. Both G.K. Chesterton and Tolkien were proponents of distributism back in their day, but it's not as well known today.