> What is it with humans' tendency to centralise anyways? I think it's less about human psychology and more about managing efficiency. A well-run centralized

> What is it with humans' tendency to centralise anyways? I think it's less about human psychology and more about managing efficiency. A well-run centralized system will always be more efficient than a well-run decentralized system, by virtue of having less overhead. Whether it's overhead from arranging logistics to one large city, instead of a hundred small cities, or overhead from interacting with one large federal government, instead of 50 small state governments.