• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    16 小时前

    Why would me giving an example of decentralization leading to corruption not be deserving of being taken seriously? The US uses its decentralized structure for corruption, as it does use centralized structures. My point isn’t that both are bad, but that both have proper and improper use-cases.

    As for perspective vs authority, I’m well aware that one can see without having any power to change anything. I also know that that can become remarkably inefficient and result in catastrophe. We can make hierarchies accountable, democratic, etc, but the fact remains that they exist because of their utility and often necessity. Simply imagining a system devoid of hierarchy and trying to theorycraft it doesn’t actually mean it will function in real life.

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        16 小时前

        To the US? Yes, I live here. Having a 2 party system is more decentralized than a one party system. Centralization is a spectrum, not a binary.

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            DNC and GOP. They are united in that they both support capital, but are pit against each other to divide the working class. It’s an example of theatrics, and the disunity of the system to prevent real systemic change. Same with how separation of powers is used.

            Decentralization and centralization can both be used for good and for bad, and both have use-cases.

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                5 小时前

                Repeating myself:

                DNC and GOP. They are united in that they both support capital, but are pit against each other to divide the working class. It’s an example of theatrics, and the disunity of the system to prevent real systemic change. Same with how separation of powers is used.

                Decentralization and centralization can both be used for good and for bad, and both have use-cases.

                I also explained how separation of powers in the US is used as a fulcrum for corruption as well.