Working on getting copy editor locked in, then writing an intro for new book coming exclusively to @39418 hopefully next month. This will have a limited print edition as well!
It's not clear. We have examples of gravitating toward and away from centralization throughout history. No reason to believe one direction is inevitable or baked into nature/human nature.
There have been varying levels of competition in governance across varying levels of development.
See: Hanseatic League, Medieval Iceland, American West prior to federal control etc. for statelessness or near statelessness lasting as long as most states.
Replace the word "government" with "slavery" and literally identical to all the arguments made for nearly all of human history about why ending slavery was impossible.
When you meet a guy for the first time, he starts dropping some good books and pods, says gov inflation is disaster, lockdowns awful, he's entrepreneur...then adds, "I'm telling people to buy this thing called XRP bc it's like a digital bank thing."