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“Easier” is the whole point of the society you live in.

To be fair, the point of society is trust. It’s a way to trust information and ensure the species is safe.

The whole point of using markets and capitalism is because they generate more trust worthy results than top down driven systems.

Until this mess, which makes it seem like a central authority will be better than a system that leaves nodes on the three open for manipulation.

Essentially, we had a distributed decision making society. Now we found a hack to break that society structure. The cost for such a society to manage verification is absurdly high - every person will have to spend non trivial effort to verify that they are not being manipulated.

In contrast central decision making societies like China will just avoid that cost and be more competitive, beating out western democratic systems.