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Any Casters actively involved in DAO governance, I’d value your $.02 on this passage from “Why Nations Fail.” How do you see rules upheld in a decentralized system?

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Erin Magennis🎩🌻

One of the biggest findings from talentDAO’s research on DAOs and DAO leadership is that many DAOs become decentralized too soon and it results in problems or early downfall. It is one of the biggest regrets or learnings for next time across the board; to stay centralized longer.

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@abhishek1point0

I think centralisation and decentralisation are poor reference frames. What is distributed and what is not, seems to be a better frame. I direct you to this essay by Byrne Hobart: https://www.thediff.co/archive/the-promise-and-paradox-of-decentralization/

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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩

Disagree with this passage —very scarcity mindset. However what I do see happen is that if there is a leadership void in a DAO, something will fill it. But decentralized leadership does work. It just takes more effort.

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meh, unproven assumption that only centralized systems can uphold law, smells fishy

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tldr (tim reilly)

One important difference bt the physical politics this book is describing and DAOs: DAOs automatically have a constitution of a kind (smart contract constraints) whereas the alteration of this is key to extraction by physical political actors

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Decentralization is a spectrum within centralized. Always on one or the other is an illusion.

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The US governance system, as designed, recognized the decentralization of power into 3 branches, and various sub-branches However, over time our system of checks & balances weakened in favor of broad executive power, largely due to the Commerce Clause and the omnipresent Administrative & Regulatory State

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@manuelmaccou.eth

I think of decentralization in a DAO as shared responsibility, as opposed to a centralized org where one person or small group has the ultimate responsibility. There’s no need to fight for superiority because reaching it doesn’t have an affect. Also…

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I’m having trouble seeing the connection between inclusivity and centralization of power. But I see the socialware vs trustware spectrum as a good model for framing rules in a decentralized system https://metropolis.mirror.xyz/Y94QCcAGqzbEERmYccJxXqgZaOJr2Oxzm2k3dUn3cbM

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