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Critical infrastructure is critical so it belongs in the hands of a few. You can make it reliant on nobody so I have to trust nobody, or you can put it in the hands of a trusted few who I can research and understand. Michelle, Matthew and John GC have done such a good job of building trust we've rewarded them to the tune of billions of dollars. I understand your perspective, I just wanted to share there are other peo…
Counterargument: centralization leads to all critical infrastructure failing at once, which is far worse than single pieces of infrastructure experiencing intermittent failures at different uncorrelated points in time.
Counter-counter-argument: users forgive you when all their other apps are down, too. Countless cloud outages have proven there is safety in numbers. If your app is the only one down, you're having a very bad day. If everyone's app is down, nobody seems to actually care that much. Not enough to start making my outages my own problem instead of just waiting for someone else to fix it, at least.