# kaal:claim:3782201-014

**Claim.** The democracy and transparency achieved by the founders of current institutions has been subverted by the natural concentration of power that evolves under competition, leaving hierarchies ossified and likely too brittle to adopt processes derived from radically different information technologies.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- legacy institutions whose legal constitutions predate modern information processing

**Source quote.**

> The hierarchies have ossified. They are likely too brittle now, to adopt processes that come from such radically different in- formation technologies. Changes are likely to be seen as a threat to power and re- sisted.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Future of Decentralization* (2021), The old vs. the new, page 19

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

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**Failure mode.** institutional ossification  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** systemic-risk, institutional-design

**Keywords.** institutional-ossification, power-concentration, legacy-institutions, resistance-to-change

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