kaal:claim:3808873-014

Decentralized system design is itself path dependent on the centralized past: designers' prior experience in centralized structures infiltrates and undermines attempts to create more decentralized systems, through subconscious processes the designer cannot change or influence.

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The design of decentralized systems is subject to path dependencies that originate from the centralized past. Humans' past experience in centralized structures infiltrate and undermine attempts to create more decentralized system.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021), IV. Path Dependencies, p. 11
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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human designers socialized and educated in centralized cultures

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mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: Centralized Design Inheritancefamily: recentralization-driftinstitutional-design

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