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red-iron-pineyesterday at 5:52 PM1 replyview on HN

they said the same thing about the divine right of kings

how could there be an alternative? surely without god or a king everything would fall apart!


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bit-anarchistyesterday at 6:44 PM

Because the alternative to a market (a system where people make choices with the stuff they own) is a system where people are dictated to use stuff they don't own.

The divine right of kings touched on a lot of things, like governance, ownership, origin of law, etc. Decentralization/centralization focuses on ownership before anything else.