True enough. I guess every generation needs their reminder. Still, the meta-point holds: centralized power lacks robustness (e.g. to corruption and/or the stup

True enough. I guess every generation needs their reminder. Still, the meta-point holds: centralized power lacks robustness (e.g. to corruption and/or the stupidity of a relative few), but has big advantages over widely distributed systems in terms of communication latency and bandwidth that enable efficiency. We're sloshing around dynamically trying combinations, but we should expect to always see some centralized (opportunities for efficiency) and some distributed (opportunities for robustness) stuff going on.