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TRIGGER 21. CENTRALISED VERSUS DECENTRALISED USE
Richard Koch • The Star Principle: How it can make you rich
Centralized pricing gives it the best pulse on the market of anyone in it.
Packy McCormick • Knock Knock. Who's There? Opendoor.
An editorial structure that balances centralization and decentralization.
Every • Introducing Every
The platform economy as it is currently constituted—highly centralized, highly mediated, with critical decisions made by a select few—risks replicating the same problems that have led to widespread burnout, financial precarity, and erosion of workers’ rights in the traditional economy.
Katie Parrott • Legitimacy Lost
My intuition is that it will be very important for Zora and its peers to act as central galleries and marketplaces. So, perhaps we’ll find ourselves in another situation (there have been many) where the decentralized promise of the bl — ch — lures people onto a somewhat more traditional, centralized platform — albeit one with some... See more
Robin Sloan • A coat check ticket, a magic spell
The problem, in other words, isn't intermediation – it's power . The thing that distinguishes a useful intermediary from an enshittified bully is power . Intermediaries gain power when our governments stop enforcing competition law. This lets intermediaries buy each other up and corner markets. Once they've formed cozy cartels, they can capture... See more
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: Middlemen Without Enshittification; The Bezzle Excerpt
Instead of negotiating a salary with a superior, you’ll more likely put a token grant request through the governance process with the community.
Collaborative Fund • The Future of Work
... See moreYou need a complex mix of centralisation and decentralisation. While overall vision, goals, and strategy usually comes from the top, it is vital that extreme decentralisation dominates operationally so that decisions are fast and unbureaucratic. Information must be shared centrally and horizontally across the organisation — it is not either/or. Big
Katie: Right now you have janky consumer experiences. People say they value their privacy but when push comes to shove people go where it's convenient. But we can't judge the current state of innovation with the end state of innovation. We don't have the end state. People will say centralized companies are winning right now but you have these... See more