# S curve

`kaal:entity:s-curve`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `s-curve`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3808873-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-011) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Centralization follows an S curve: in the expansion phase the benefits of centralizing power, capital and control rise faster than its costs, but in the decline phase the rising costs of centralization, including corruption, diseconomies of scale and cronyism, can no longer be offset, so centralized systems function less optimally and less efficiently.
  > Because of the increase in the cost of centralization, the benefits of centralization can no longer offset and outweigh the cost. As a result, centralized systems function less optimally and less efficiently.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873
- [3808873-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-012) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Even where superior decentralized technological solutions exist, the centralized elements deeply engrained in business and society can be perpetuated by the efficiency gains of the S curve of centralization, so superiority alone does not displace them.
  > Despite the emergence of superior decentralized technological solutions that have been emerging at the beginning of the 21st century, the centralized elements in business and society can be perpetuated via the efficiency gains in the S-curve of centralization.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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