Decentralization: The Key to a Stable Society and System

7 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A single-speaker YouTube monologue (by Charles Cormier) arguing that centralizing power concentrates human imperfections—greed, corruption, bias, and emotion—and increases systemic risk. The speaker recommends decentralizing aspects of U.S. society and government, warning that centralization (with China offered as an example) can be dangerous when leadership changes (succession risk).

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As soon as you centralize power within a bunch of humans, human imperfection kicks in. And that includes greed. That includes which leads to corruption, and that includes biases. That includes emotions that shouldn't be there when making important decisions. Anecdotal. Anecdotal emotions. So I think as the more the US Heads to decentralizing different aspects of our society in our system, the better it is. The more it centralizes and gets closer to countries like China, the more concerning it will be. And while, for example, China is going well right now, I worry when power centralized, that what happens when new leaders take over? What happens is if the next Xi Jinping, when Xi Jinping dies, what happens if the next one is not as emotionally stable, for example, has the wrong, wrong ambitions? I think centralized power we've seen throughout history just does not work that well. So it's got to be more decentralized.