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Terms such as "decentralization" have often been co-opted by free market radicals as a form of capitalist realism enforcement push. We need to be careful about the actual politics of the people using words to see what they actually mean
(Original title: Magic market words)
https://tante.cc/2024/03/12/magic…

Magic market words
In tech-related discourse “decentralization”, “Open Source”, “democratization”, “federation” have become weird terms. Not because of the specific architectural or technological concept they are describing but as a way to hide the fact that the speaker thinks that “markets” are the cure-all to anything. Anything is seen as an issue of needing “more competition”, “more choice” […]