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Decentralised systems are always more inefficient.

Quite the statement, anything to back it up with?

Is it more efficient that your centralized system can at any moment be seized by the state, and turned over to a bureaucrat to run in the name of nationalization?

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What about distinguishing between long term efficiency and short term efficiency?

Decentralized systems tend to be more efficient in the long term. Centralized systems tend to be more efficient in the short term.

I think this may be true-ish??

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