Re: Decentralization & Hierarchy

RKM-

Once again, your biological analogy is just bad poetry.

Non-human ecosystems are not non-hierarchical.  
Wolves eat moose -- do moose also eat wolves?

A good analogy might be with capitalists "eating" workers, but not the
other way around.  

I'm not prepared to accept that as natural, or as necessity.

But in decisionmaking, as opposed to economic exploitation, it seems that
our finite information-processing capacity may impose limits on
egalitarianism.  This is the best explanation for the fact that
specialization/differentiation rises in tandem with hierarchy and
stratification -- everyone can't know everything, and some end up in more
favorable network locations.

RH