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Centralization is prone to corruption... 2008 financial crisis ilustrated it very well worldwide... Decentralization, while having a bigger overhead, also bene
by justme123 12y ago
Centralization is prone to corruption... 2008 financial crisis ilustrated it very well worldwide...
Decentralization, while having a bigger overhead, also benefits from a bigger pool of contributors...
Example 1 - mathematics: if the europe-mathematics did not cooperate with other world-mathematics, they would limit their knowledge to only european findings, which would leave them reduced compared to the worldwide mathematics investigation
Example 2 - wikipedia: more updated and complete than many classic-editor-encyclopedias that were sold before wikipedia was made.
- frenchy 12y agoI think the problem here is that you are confounding different types of problems. Knowledge tends to benifit greatly from decentralization; building railroads, not so much.