# Societal organization

`kaal:entity:societal-organization`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `societal-organization`. 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

3 claims across 2 works, 2020 to 2021.

**2020**

- [3709041-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-006) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > The tension between socialist principles for the organization of society and capitalistic principles for the organization of society has undermined societal goals for the betterment of humanity for centuries.
  Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041
- [3709041-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-008) [normative/argued] -- Decentralization is the antidote to the failures of both socialism and capitalism: centralized coordination of societal and economic activity, in whichever ideological form, should be held to a minimum in order to free human potential and improve society.
  > Decentraliszation posits that centralized coordination of societal and economic activity, as instituted and instantiated in capitalistic or socialistic doctrine, should be held to a minimum in order to free the human potential and improve society.
  Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**2021**

- [3808873-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-018) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for organizing society, because exclusive reliance on a single legal document combined with widespread voter apathy makes the constitutional model appear to be the only lasting form of organization.
  > Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for the organization of society.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/societal-organization.md | sha256sum

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