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   "text": "A long-term successful network requires a dynamic and responsive governance system that keeps the organization in the decentralized democratic realm and prevents it from moving to the next natural stage of centralized governance with a static hierarchy.",
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   "text": "The drift into static power relationships is a universal temptation because centralization is efficient, yet centralized governance is provably flawed.",
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