There is benefit in centralization in ensuring standards (such as rail gauge, radio frequency bands, V AC, flight paths, what side of the road you drive on, cohesion of communication symbols, baud rates, pollution mitigation, food quality, etc) and resolving inter communal conflicts, and facilitating complex research and development that would otherwise be unachievable by a smaller group alone (like pharma or clean energy research).
While standards can arise naturally across disparate small groups (such as US rail gauge) a central body can expedite adoption, and enforce standards that are unlikely to arise of their own volition (such as pollution mitigation, and food quality).
That’s not to say we ought to exclusively have a monolithic centralized control structure, but that there should be something to help the small groups work together and do what they otherwise couldn’t.
So you just missed the part where they said sharing resources? That would include intellectual resources. Tribal meeting could easily achieve what you are suggesting a boot is needed for
So you just missed the part where not all parties are likely to adopt burdensome practices if they can get away with it? What happens if two parties decide not to dump industrial waste in the drinking party and a third party who’s further upstream realizes that dumping industrial waste in the drinking water doesn’t hurt them, is easy to dispose of in that way, only impacts parties they don’t have agreements with downstream, and they just don’t care?
There is benefit in centralization in ensuring standards (such as rail gauge, radio frequency bands, V AC, flight paths, what side of the road you drive on, cohesion of communication symbols, baud rates, pollution mitigation, food quality, etc) and resolving inter communal conflicts, and facilitating complex research and development that would otherwise be unachievable by a smaller group alone (like pharma or clean energy research).
While standards can arise naturally across disparate small groups (such as US rail gauge) a central body can expedite adoption, and enforce standards that are unlikely to arise of their own volition (such as pollution mitigation, and food quality).
That’s not to say we ought to exclusively have a monolithic centralized control structure, but that there should be something to help the small groups work together and do what they otherwise couldn’t.
So you just missed the part where they said sharing resources? That would include intellectual resources. Tribal meeting could easily achieve what you are suggesting a boot is needed for
So you just missed the part where not all parties are likely to adopt burdensome practices if they can get away with it? What happens if two parties decide not to dump industrial waste in the drinking party and a third party who’s further upstream realizes that dumping industrial waste in the drinking water doesn’t hurt them, is easy to dispose of in that way, only impacts parties they don’t have agreements with downstream, and they just don’t care?