I have to confess some discomfort with the holding up of decentralization as some sort of worthy endeavor. It seems to me like it's often a way to reify power structures while giving lip-service to democracy. For instance, I read recently about early liberal Americans (think "Loco Foco") and how they sought to up-end monopoly but how much of the legislation they advocated ended up being exploited by the people who had held those monopolies. It seems (to me) that cooperative and collaborative work around a common goal is more effective and interesting than a libertarian dispersal of assets and energy.

Which I guess is part of the @sndbox model and our own #explore1918 experiment, but I am wary of the "decentralizing" rhetoric nonetheless.