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Historically, whenever a healthy decentralized organization began to earn money it quickly devolved into a centralized institution, because its uniting ideals shifted from transcendental value to a desire for money.

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Whenever a healthy decentralized organization in the past began to earn money, it quickly devolved to a centralized institution. Their ideals shifted from the transcen- dental value which originally united them to a desire for money.

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021), Chapter 9. Eight institutions, p. 2
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205

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historical decentralized organizations that became profitable

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: Profit-driven recentralizationfamily: recentralization-driftdecentralizationinstitutional-design

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