The Simple Reason Decentralization Might Not Work Afterall
Real life events can sometimes show how people will react to future technologies. For example, even if Facebook leaked so much data people use it because they have to. It has become too useful. Most of us would rather sacrifice safety for convenience. Zuckerberg knows this very well. Governments also know this very well. Any human with mitigated authority and dominance in a market - from priests to apple retailers - understand this dynamic perfectly.
Decentralization mitigates the trust to the individual, something that no average human is willing to do. The way our economy is constructed, it leaves very little time to concentrate to many things. Our entire system is based on specialization, aka do one thing and do it very good. Appeal to authority is still the strongest game in town whether that is an academic paper, a doctor's coat, a police officer's hat or a well groomed successful business man. There is no reason for the average human being to accept responsibility about something when someone else knows how to do the job better.
The average consumer will rather have many centralized entities antagonizing each other, thus resulting in an indirect decentralized free market. Extreme decentralization such as in the case of most blockchains does not work because most people can't be fucked. They don't care. Speed and convenience is much more important than trust and safety.
The most basic facet of human nature is to follow. To be sheep. This is why centralization will remain attractive unless something fundamental changes from our very own human nature.
There are new forms of blockchain technology attempting a balance between centralization and decentralization. Some day one may be able to position oneself where one wants to be regarding trust, safety, and other variables.
Crypto-secession is coming :-)
There will be a blockchain to suit every level of risk tolerance and every taste as to which regulations to live under.
I do agree that the solution is somewhere in the middle until these technologies become seamless and thus the end user won't be able to notice their participation.
Nice post. Pure decentralization is an illusion but there will be tradeoffs.. current society is too full of middlemens that suck the wealth to others to do basically nothing.. banks, insurances, certificators,.. and many money related activities will be completly changed by the blockchain(s)
Decranalized ..
I agree that people will seek confort above many other things. The catch is the bring forth decentralised change that is also a comfort enhancer for people. I call this the ergonomics of change.
What I understand is out of all ..... tion's only Education really works
i think that is how our minds have been trained to react, we can retarin the mind to be indipendent from the popular thinking and free our selves from the centralised system, we just need to show them the benefits of decentralization
One of the limiting factor to humanity is that we don't consider yielding to a change so important even if what we are working with is not producing results.
Once we are stick to something, we want to stay loyal to it, things don't always work like that, that is why you always see those that are ready to change with a change always be ahead of their game.
Decentralization is the present and the future! While centralization was the past.... Lol
For many this is true. Even for some who are awake. But not all. There are those who are awake who still value trust and safety. Sadly they are a minority. Thanks. @kyriacos
Even DPOS doesn't seem to be working as intended when it comes to proper decentralisation. Perhaps not so much because of sheep as because of sharks, but still. Nobody seems to care much though, so I suppose its underlying principles won't be revisited as long as it is convenient and fast, as you say.
You're ignoring any and all value of collective action with your last paragraph.
How many roads will be maintained through decentralization? Disaster response systems? Health care systems (even to the level of a large village)? What's the plan to home-school the billions of children?
The reason decentralization (REAL decentralization) WON'T work as a single paradigm of operation is it CAN'T work as the sole social model for the maximum benefit of more than a very limited number.
We need to recognize the problem with "human nature" ISN'T the desire to follow, or serve- it's the greed to exert power over others, and our laziness to oppose that to whatever extent we can.
You're correct in identifying this as innate, but that doesn't mean immutable. That same greed, if directed and modulated into benefit for those we wish to control, makes for the greatest teachers and benefactors. That same laziness that's so detrimental to freedom can translate into the drive for parsimony in thought that leads to great science, engineering, and artifice.