# kaal:claim:3227933-027

**Claim.** Centralized organizations also lose the competition for talent, because the younger generation views centralization as a threat to personal autonomy, choice and happiness and is increasingly sceptical of traditional hierarchies.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- younger, Millennial workforce

**Source quote.**

> The younger "Millennial" generation view centralization as a threat to personal autonomy, choice, and happiness.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations* (2018), 6. Escaping a “Centralized World”, page 14

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933

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**Failure mode.** Talent flight from hierarchy  (family: governance-participation-collapse)

**Topics.** ai-and-agents, decentralization

**Keywords.** talent, millennials, autonomy, centralization

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