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   "text": "Decentralization, though it may look wastefully redundant, gives every member greater autonomous power, whereas centralization limits members' powers and reduces them to cogs in the machine.",
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   "text": "Centralization is a natural state that evolves out of decentralization under competition unless it is consciously prevented by guarding members' power, while a centralized organization can always be conquered through its single point of failure at the top.",
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