kaal:claim:3782198-021

Earlier centralized companies defeated more decentralized peer to peer platforms because of the technology of the time and the incentive design built into capitalist civilization: consumer devices could not match industrial upload speeds, centralized firms had the incentive to polish user interfaces, and economies of scale made central bureaucracy worth negotiating.

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The reason earlier centralized companies succeeded against more decentralized P)P platforms is due to the existing technology of the time and the natural incentive design that is built into our capitalist civilization.

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021), P-P technology, p. 19
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

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describes the competitive conditions of the early internet era

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