Centralised is colonial.
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@aral
I'd say it's the other way around. Colonial is characterized by many small and new colonies spread out over large distances. Describes decentralized more than centralized.
@freemo @aral Colonialism is about centralised ownership, governance, and control. It's not about the geographical topology of the nodes but the network topology they're connected by. You can have the exact same geographical topology and have the network that connects those nodes be either centralised or decentralised. Centralised topologies imply centralised ownership, governance, and control. In other words, they are colonial.
@aral
While that's certainly a valid definition, even if we accept that definition I wouldn't say it describes centralized systems since there are no colonies, just a single uniform system. A better analogy might be libertarianism vs dictatorship.
@freemo @aral While colonialism is, by definition, dictatorial, so is right libertarianism. There we have some folks who baulk at the tyranny of rule by democratically-elected governments while salivating for the day they will rule as billionaire CEO-kings. Right libertarianism is colonial to its core. If anything, it's a far more concentrated form of colonialism, where power is even more tightly wielded than in the government version (not that the two are separate; they have lots in common).
