Alavi | علوی<p>Today I got into a heated debate about <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/centralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centralization</span></a> and <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> with a good friend of mine which is an industrial engineer. As you can imagine, as an industrial engineer he was praising centralization and how it's better for the economy, and I as a software engineer was debating how everything should be moving to a sustainable degree of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralization</span></a>, and how the world is moving toward this as people are getting weary of injustice and monopoly.</p><p>As successful examples of decentralization, I named some crypto currencies and their ecosystem, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lemmy</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matrix</span></a>, and explained to him how everything isn't about the economy and more money, that a more fair and sustainably decentralized world will lead to higher mean wealth and better lives.</p><p>He understood my points and I think I convinced him on the benefits of decentralization which felt good.</p><p>But "sustainable decentralization" is the keyword here. We should think quantumly on a spectrum between centralization and decentralization.</p>