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   "text": "Corporations centralize power in order to pursue a singular strategy that efficiently exploits market circumstances, but this produces instability when the market swings, because a brittle hierarchy may crash before it can reorganize to handle a new challenge.",
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   "text": "Properly implemented anonymity strengthens decentralized governance because it lets individuals relate without the inherited biases of predecessor generations and a lifetime inside centralized power structures.",
   "abstract": "If properly implemented, anonymity strengthens decentralized governance by taking out parts of the human nature that hold business and society back. First and foremost, anonymity allows individuals to relate to each other without the inherited biases of generations of predecessors",
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