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   "text": "Increased connectivity enabled by blockchain technology, combined with increased decentralization, allows the removal of intermediaries including lawyers, financial intermediaries, and platform companies.",
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   "text": "Decentralism generates efficiency through higher levels of connectivity rather than through the linear cost cutting and economies of scale that capitalism and socialism debate.",
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