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by red-iron-pine 4 days ago
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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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.