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Perhaps the dominate feature of industrialization, automation, trade and networking is that decisions that used to be made here, by us and those we know, are instead made far away, by others. Having your life governed by others has an inherent problem of legitimacy and disempowerment. There are also practical problems: distant decisions are often thinly informed, procrustean and based on formalisms that go awry. The deciders are also subject to the agency problem; they have incentives distinct from the persons for whom the decisions are made.