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Right? Anyone who gains power or wealth can utilize that power to accumalate more and/or prevent others from also gaining power and wealth. It doesn't matter if it is centralized or decentralized.

However, by being decentralized it prevents any mechanism of checking the power gained. Yes, centralization can be used as a means of maintaining power, but it can also be used as a way of checking power. Decentralization has no way of checking power.