Hi,
I was not referring to the prehistory of mankind. We don't know prehistory because we have no records. We have architectural artefacts, for example, and our interpretations of them, the oldest ‘records’ of our existence. I wasn't talking about the end of all humanity, I wouldn't speculate on that. But a third world war would certainly result in the end of most of us, for example.
This decentralization is the cutting edge of tech advance in every field of industry.
Please give me three concrete examples from industry that are one hundred percent decentralised or where the means of production are completely self-sufficient and without the use of collectively performed work (including how these products reach you). Just briefly, please.
Of course I didn't say such had happened. Decentralization hasn't finished rolling out. "We continue to develop and distribute the infrastructure of decentralization, but economically that process began long ago..." There isn't a switch that flips and everything suddenly becomes completely 100% decentralized and all centralized production ends. There is a gradual roll out of infrastructure as tech advance enables higher productivity at end points than collective labor can compete with.
The erosion of the mechanisms that enable investors to extract wealth from production gradually reduces their take, and wherever individuals produce their own goods and services they retain the full value of their production. This transition increases daily the wealth retained by such individuals as the infrastructure rolls out, and becomes more advanced and increases productivity more.
It is entirely possible to mine, smelt, and produce iron alone. However this isn't the most productive way to make iron today, because that tech hasn't advanced to the point it is more profitable to do so than it is to make iron in a mill using collective labor. But there are products it is more profitable to take a collectively mined resource and fabricate an end product yourself, particularly when bespoke products tailored to the needs of the consumer are possible. Increasingly modern circuit boards and electronics, for example, aren't designed in a Chinese factory and mass produced because small manufacturers of circuit boards enable people to order a small run of boards to be printed that they then use to manufacture devices themselves, such as motors, radios, or any of the myriad electronic devices today possible.
Because such small manufacturers don't have to buy 100k circuit boards and sell a product to the mass market, but can make 20 cameras or stepper motors for their own use, this new DIY production reduces centralization and improves productivity at the same time, and businesses like PCBway, that produce such small orders of custom circuit boards, also decentralize the economy, not being corporations owned by investors, but are small privately held shops that don't pay dividends to investors. They still pay taxes on their profits, so the decentralization isn't complete, but it is more decentralized than the electronics market was before. This shift in wealth resulting from greater decentralization gradually reduces the wealth of the investor class, and increases the wealth of smaller producers, private parties like PCBway, and their market isn't Dell or IBM but individuals or other small companies making products for their own use, or for a small market.
This is what's ongoing, and it's happening in agriculture, transportation, communications, construction, and every field of industry.