Editing DGF transcendent values (section)

=== Overview ===
DGF values individuals and groups, and so we seek their good. This is our primary transcendent value, which we take for granted as an idea that cannot be formally codified. This forms the basis of the further elaboration of our values stated above. 

We seek to implement decentralized organization in the service of the good of individuals and groups for the following reasons. Individual members have greater average power in a decentralized group than in centralized groups. Individuals have greater average freedom within their group. Individuals have greater opportunity to assert their power and freedom in service to their values and goals.

Decentralized groups are more powerful than centralized groups because they have greater stability in the long term. This is because decentralized groups do not depend on any particular individual members. Individuals are integrated when the group is organized so information at the edge is incorporated, so decentralized organizations tend to make better decisions for the common good.

Decentralized organization requires stable [[governance]]. Wise choices are necessary in designing each DAO's governance structure, to serve individual and group interests. Matching governance decisions to a group's values is crucial for the long-term harmony of a DAO. Therefore an analysis of the consequences of governance decisions on the explicit results of the reward mechanism in a DAO is crucial. Such an objective analysis is a major purpose of [[reputation tokenomics]].

Centralized groups are more efficient in short-term behavior because decentralized organization requires maximum redundancy. In a DAO, every member must monitor and regulate the behavior of every other member because there is no central authority. So historically, centralization has outcompeted decentralization in many situations. 

The only reason we have the potential to create DAOs at this point in history is because recent advances in IT tools are giving us for personal power over the storage, processing, and communication of digital information. P2P tech is emerging which can achieve this maximum redundancy at scale.

Centralization's very quality of efficiency leads to instability ''<small>–</small>'' the lack of redundancy makes it fragile and open to disruption. Decentralization is more sustainable. Its redundancy and connectivity allows information-at-the-edge to be communicated to the entire group. Decisions are made with more perfect information.