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   "text": "Centralized platforms cannot simply drop identity verification, because they need it to keep malicious actors from abusing the network and to ensure work quality; this is the tradeoff a staking based design is meant to dissolve.",
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   "text": "The intuition that strengthening one pole of a value pair necessarily diminishes its opposite is plainly false in any complex situation.",
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   "text": "Decentralized organizations demand more from their members and return more autonomous power and profit, whereas centralized organizations shelter members in a niche and limit and stultify their power in exchange for security.",
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   "text": "Big Green DAO's committee unanimity and closed membership make attacks unlikely, but these same protections come at the expense of the decentralized organization the founders were trying to create.",
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