@mangeurdenuage @kfist There's always been a sort of cycle: first power / authority / resources are decentralized. Then people dislike the inconsistent way things are handled, so everything centralizes. Then centralized power / authority / resources attract persuasive people who seek to divert some of those resources to their own control, so rigid standards are put into place. Then the system ossifies and can no longer respond to most people's needs because they differ from some standard written in the capital. Then there are a series of moves to rip power and resources out of the hands of the bureaucracy and divest it to local and regional authorities and we're back where we started.

I have no solution, but the present overly centralized systems are abused regularly for the benefit of wealthy corporations and their management, so I would like to see some divestment into local and regional hands.