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Centralization has two major flaws that inevitably lead to its downfall; the first is that every centralized organization has a single point of failure, binding the organization to a leader's poor decisions when that leader lacks information, skill, wisdom, or charisma.

Centralization comes with two major flaws that inevi- tably lead to its downfall. First, every centralized organization has a single point of failure.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021), What is decentralization? A mathematician's perspective from Craig Calcaterra, p. 14
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191

• all centralized organizations
• aggravated when circumstances change faster than a leader can decide

failuresupport: arguedfailure: leader-single-point-of-failurefamily: recentralization-driftdecentralizationinstitutional-design

• extended_by kaal:claim:3782192-027 Centralization is a natural state that evolves out of decentralization under competition unless it is consciou...
• generalizes kaal:claim:3782217-005 Where a DAO is automated around a single centralized point of failure, the work of decentralizing and giving m...
• generalizes kaal:claim:4734750-013 When the first reviewer misses a defect and follow-on reviewers anchor entirely on the first reviewer's concer...
• generalizes kaal:claim:4941807-014 Centralizing data in a single repository, while it permits powerful computation and advanced algorithms, poses...
• generalizes kaal:claim:3782217-004 Any reliance by a DAO on a centralized feature creates a centralized point of failure that threatens the survi...

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