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A friend of mine have difficulties in kept promises especially related with time. This habit doesn’t occur when he is taking a train or an airplane. Similar, offices also use machine with finger print or card to control their employee office hours. Suddenly, we become much more like machine than we realize. In the same time, does this phenomena indicate the chaotic side of human?

These questions delivers me to more question about self-reliance and centralization. Democracy issues delivers us to decentralization, local knowledge, conditions which been expected to support participatory and independency of every agentsĀ  involved. As stated by Adam Smith, specialization delivers productivity. In the same time, specialization without coordination and collaboration can ends up in inefficiency and overlapping. In one side, decentralization allow the agent to be creative and accomodate heterogeneity, in the other side, it is potentially make the modality stick on small scale.

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