It is funny that governments have come full circle. First it was hiring a mercenary to protect your property, then it was giving food to the duke, then it was paying taxes on income until the state realized there was no longer any competition given there was only the global government and decided to take the property it was charged with protecting.
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Living things generally cycle through population dynamic and biological diversity ranges. In 'The Beak of the Finch' (IIRC) Stephen Weiner discusses how the finches on Galapagos Islands beaks cycle through changes as climate cycles. I note that the baseline evolutionary social status of humanity was highly decentralized, and it is predictable that human society and culture will cycle through a range of adaptive postures as our environment changes.
Decentralization of means of production highly encourage restoration of the pre-industrial craft economy, or even pre-agrarian generalization as AI enables automation of industrial processes going forward. The alarming power grab centralized institutions are presently implementing counters that, and I expect those behind it reckon they are successfully superceding that decentralizing influence in order to maintain and increase their value to society.
I note two powerful drivers likely preclude their success, as history reveals: the ruthless nature of institutional power results in psychopaths competing for power and control, which impacts the strength of institutional power negatively, and the robust nature of natural diversity, which has always worn down institutional power weakened by the aforementioned disarray in it's prosecution.
Almost all humanity are hybrids today, which with 7.5 billion iterations, remains nominally diverse to render success over crudely effected institutional controls practically certain for competent individuals and communities, which is far more able to increase in potential power due to it's propensity to innovation, which a society comprised of overlords and thralls lacks.