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   "text": "Because more powerful members of a hierarchy are better positioned to capture whatever power becomes available, power distribution in an entrenched hierarchy becomes exponential, leaving the majority with minimal power and wealth. That discontent of the majority is the first destabilizing force acting on a centralized organization.",
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   "text": "Focusing rewards on reputation rather than on immediately fungible cash encourages decentralized organization because it disperses power fairly: anyone with equivalent talent is equally acceptable, those already employed are unavailable, and the exponential rich-get-richer concentration of power is diminished.",
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