[betwixthewires]

But there's no reason to believe this is unidirectional and self reinforcing. There are plenty of trends that went on long enough that whole generations were born with them as the status quo, only for them to be reversed or changed. Feudalism went on for hundreds of years.

[beached_whale]

There are financial large incentives to centralize though. That needs to change, look at the infra that is hosted on the cloud and what depends on that.