Decentralization is not about equal rights, but fair chances, here's how you know the difference

I've thought long and hard on the topic of decentralization, and like many things related to crypto and blockchain technology, it is vastly misrepresented.

When people talk about decentralization or at least hear of it, they immediately think about "equal rights" and that is not true to decentralization.

How do we know? What are rights?

According to Wikipedia

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

Think long and hard on these words "entitlement" "owed" "allowed".

Now ask yourself:

Does Bitcoin owe me shit?

Am I entitled to anything on the Bitcoin blockchain?

Am I allowed to do anything on Bitcoin?

Well, the word freedom has been used many times where it is not supposed to, also, people tend to believe that "freedom" ultimately translates to "immunity".

No darling, you're quite free to say whatever you want whenever you want, but that doesn't mean you won't get hit in the fuckin throat when necessary.

You call the aftermath "censorship" but I call it consequences of being fuckin stupid as a loud mouth, freedom doesn't mean your actions won't have consequences and we see this every day on diverse communities on here, you fuck around and you get what happens to screw ups.

You're not entitled to anything, not owed anything and although you're allowed to do a lot, there are still limitations set by "community consensus" and also "consequences" for your actions thereof.

Decentralization is about "fair entry chances"

A community is decentralized when "decisions" that moves or halts the network don't come from a central authority and how can this be achieved?

It is achieved when there's a fair entry chance for everyone to participate.

Some networks require you to have miners - Bitcoin - you don't like what goes on around there? Buy more miners then.

Some networks require you to buy tokens - Ethereum - you also don't like what is going on there? Buy more tokens.

Some networks just want you to "prove" your value to the community to earn support - Hive - so if you don't like what goes on here, run a campaign, draw the community to your side.

It is quite similar to the traditional system of governance but the difference is that the "entry barrier" is largely smaller.

Do not think for a second that you'd ever have a successful chain based upon a "one human one token influence", it is freaking dogshit and will fall and fail to scale or grow.

There always has to be a sense of difficulty for a system to be strong and productive, this is how the best is formed. All that one token bullshit like what is being proposed with worldcoin is a freaking smokescreen for whatever the fuck they are planning.

There will never be a functioning system with such, so if you were dreaming of it, quit and put in the work that is required to build authority because whatever influence that is not created by sweat from hard work will be misused, that is a fact.

It's high time we stop getting these things twisted, decentralization doesn't mean everyone will have equal rights, no, it won't be equal because while others have thousands of tokens to influence governance, some will have millions, that isn't equality because the weight of their votes will differ, but one thing is certain tho, everyone has a fair chance to climb up the ladder, one just has to determine to build that influence.

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