I get it, no worries. This is not a zero point comparison to me. We can't have ALL FREEDOM or ALL SECURITY without a complete change of perspective. Realizing that those are two separate measurement sticks and we want to maximize both is really important. I love Benjamin Franklin, he was actually a distant cousin of mine, but his statement is too simplistic. We don't have to choose one at the expense of the other, we need to maximize both.

If all centralization is bad, then any and all pools of resources and capital are bad. All groups of people that are not borg hive minds. Any democracy where there is a single opposing vote. It can get silly, and it just derails the conversation thread.

A voluntary pooling of capital to buy a bitcoin miner and distribute the rewards has not been tried. Well, it has but it turned out to be a ponzi scheme that I gave up on in the summer of 2018. The current publicly traded companies that are bitcoin miners don't pay dividends, and their stock value sucks. Municipal governments in the US are too scared to try new things, or their afraid to even talk about it. The biggest question is how we get the ball rolling. If I had the capital, I might try, but I don't.