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Power concentration
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying power-concentration. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3782192-006 : Concentrating too much power in any single office of a hierarchy creates a decision making bottleneck that can cripple the organization, so the tree structure that is optimal for transmitting orders d
- 3782192-009 : The most common source of friction is the natural tendency of hierarchies to concentrate power at the top through a rich get richer mechanism: a more powerful member can use their greater power to gai
- 3782192-010 : Unchecked concentration of power drives the distribution toward one member holding nearly all resources, which is clearly inefficient for the goals of the group, and the resulting discontent is the ma
- 3782201-014 : The democracy and transparency achieved by the founders of current institutions has been subverted by the natural concentration of power that evolves under competition, leaving hierarchies ossified an
- 3782205-013 : Once the equalizing ideal that moderates a decentralized organization is lost, competition generated by the profit motive leads inevitably to centralization with rigid rules about who holds power and
- 3782205-015 : Decentralized organizations can survive economic success, because current digital tools permit secure and efficient accounting of high transaction volumes so that money can be shared appropriately wit
- 3782205-016 : If an organization's goal is to maintain decentralization, its tools must be used deliberately to prevent the natural concentration of power that occurs when economic inefficiencies create pockets of
- 3782210-029 : Concentration of power is the greatest threat to any decentralized organization, because a single member or sub-coalition that gains a majority of power in an inherently democratic organization will e
- 3782210-032 : Because reputation tokens are constantly created, the reputation economy is inflationary, and a member with very high reputation must do proportionally more work merely to maintain the disparity, whic
- 3782214-018 : Internal competition for profit creates a natural tendency to centralize power as members differentiate themselves through wins and losses, and this centralizing tendency is an additional destabilizin
- 4529715-015 : The most significant risk of bad DAO governance is centralization, in which a small group holds a disproportionate share of power or influence and thereby undermines the decentralized nature of the or
- 5254152-002 : Quadratic voting suppresses domination by any single participant because the cost of each additional vote rises quadratically, making concentrated control prohibitively expensive.
- 6421319-011 : If a small number of hyperscale firms control electricity contracts, GPU supply chains, and data center locations, the collapse of cognitive scarcity produces digital feudalism in which abundance accr