# Centralized power

`kaal:entity:centralized-power`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `centralized-power`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2022.

**2021**

- [3782191-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782191-037) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > Corporations tend to have centralized power, because they wish to employ a singu- lar strategy to efficiently exploit the circumstances of the market. However, this leads to instability whenever the market swings.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191

**2022**

- [4067783-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4067783-026) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > 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
  Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Fallacies (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4067783

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