# kaal:claim:3782193-019

**Claim.** The lesson the authors draw from Imperial China and Pharaonic Egypt is that decentralization of power and individual autonomy give long-term stability when the society also has unifying ideals it can believe in.

**Type.** normative  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- requires unifying ideals the society believes in

**Source quote.**

> The lesson of Im- perial China, and Pharaonic Egypt before it, is that decentralization of power, individ- ual autonomy, gives long-term stability when there are unifying ideals that the society can believe in.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), Protocol decentralization in China, page 16

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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

**Keywords.** decentralization, individual-autonomy, transcendental-values, long-term-stability, governance-design

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