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   "text": "Centralized coordination of behavior for the common good risks undermining individual effort, whereas blockchain technology's autonomous and anonymous decentralized coordination of individual action can deliver common good outcomes without suppressing individualism and its welfare enhancing effects.",
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   "text": "Decentralized systems create a self reinforcing feedback loop between unique individual inputs and personal freedom: as the quality of unique individual inputs improves the system, the system places higher value on the uniqueness of human inputs, and personal liberties expand as a result.",
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   "text": "Decentralized systems invert the collectivist tradeoff: rather than demanding that individuals sacrifice personal fulfilment for the group, they prioritize personal fulfilment because it produces the unique inputs and innovation that raise the collective wisdom of the group.",
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   "text": "Appeals to individual sacrifice for a common good constitute ethical collectivism, which corrupts society and undermines the reason and rational thought of individuals.",
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   "text": "Because of its autocratic and efficiency focused tendencies, centralized algorithmic automation is prone to create structures for the evolution of dataism, which ultimately denies the value of human inputs and individualism.",
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