Topic: What is better decentralization or progress? (Read 136 times)

Centralised systems are much easier stooped. If you are building something that is disruptive. That means you will have a lot of opposition. Then as big as possible decentralisation is a must.

So you don't believe a collective can ever make any good decisions, only a great leader or selected elite could?

"Strong" leadership might seem to work when you do have this great leader. Unfortunately people die (or go crazy, whatever), and more often than not you end with idiots that will promptly lead you into ruin. And since you already gave him/her all the power, there is nothing else you can do. Very often they use this power to entrench themselves and their successors.

The "great leader" does not suffer the necessities of the people. It lives in the palace, with all the amenities he could possibly need. Inevitably they live in the fantasy that everything is great and anyone saying otherwise is an enemy. The people live in the darkest hour, just like my country right now: no way out.

I'd choose decentralization most of the time because in general when a project is centralized you may or may not have access to whatever profits it brings.
For instance, you pay taxes and the government does some research. It finances a number of projects with your money that includes faster Internet and better cell phone access, new weapons, cleaner water...
The Internet and phone tech will be sold to private companies that will charge you more for providing better services. You won't have access to the weapons so that's wasted money for you. The only thing you'll get is the water out of so many projects that were financed with your taxes. You still got something, but most of it was not done for you but for the benefit of others. A decentralized project will take longer but if you decide to finance it you will have a share, just like people had in the ICOs. The problem with them was that some were scams and the rest had no real life use. It doesn't mean decentralization is worse, because if you develop shit it will be shit regardless of whether it was done the centralized or decentralized way.

This has nothing to do with politics/society. i.e. wrong section.

However, nothing is black and white. You can have both if a project is setup to achieve that. Decentralized projects can have plenty of progress. But they tend to move slower as there are competing opinions and ideas and they have to reach a consensus of the majority. They tend to focus on building a solid base with certain ideals from which they will make money as opposed to money being the first priority. A project run by a group is answerable only to themselves and they tend to end up corrupt. More often than not they are setup to make themselves rich by using all those they convince to be part of it.

This is no different than a government. Do  you want to live under a dictatorship or a free society. It's the same with a project. Do you want to have a "real say" or just be a pawn for them. The answer to that comes down to your goals. If all you care about is making money then go right ahead and get involved with stuff you have zero say in.

The vast majority of people on here only care about money which is why it has become a cesspool of scams and get rich quick schemes. So everyone that complains about those things should take a good look in the mirror since you're all the ones that have brought it about.

  Some aspects of the h have to be sacrifice
In order to make a project more innovative. A project is more  more on DECENTRALIZED if it's requires decission to be made by numerous entities and people. If there is no central control or no central system that runs the operation, it is amore decentralized project. Project required Strong learnership that is able to make decisions to ensure the project moves forward. Some project need to be politically centralised in order to ensure growth and in order to ensure the right people are contributing to the projects.
  Therefore there are many instances to promote more or or offered  some technically to moves forwards some of the projects and ensure the correct people belong the team.made by decentralized method before progress starts.