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   "text": "Decentralization transcends the capitalism versus socialism dichotomy because it uses elements of both profit generation and redistribution, organizing economic structures that generate profits while simultaneously redistributing resources.",
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   "text": "The centuries long tension between socialist and capitalist principles for organizing society has itself undermined societal goals for the betterment of humanity, because society forms power structures and political hierarchies that serve the competing ideologies.",
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   "text": "Both dominant ideologies fail in symmetrical ways: capitalism produces inequity, inequality, monopolies, and other market failures, while socialism has incentive design defects in which hard work is not effectively rewarded and external costs are largely ignored.",
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   "text": "Capitalism and socialism each fail in characteristic ways: capitalism produces inequities, monopolies, and other market failures, while socialism suffers incentive design failures in which hard work is not effectively rewarded and external costs are largely ignored.",
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   "text": "Decentralism transcends both socialism and capitalism by positing that centralized coordination of societal and economic activity, in whichever doctrinal form, should be minimized in order to free human potential.",
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   "text": "The voting logic makes impact community members work for themselves and for the community at the same time, which Kaal argues gives the system potential to create a reputation economy and forms of decentralized commerce that transcend capitalism and socialism.",
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