seth is full of this facile bullshit understanding. he's like the depak chopra to the entrepreneur mind.

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The implicit message is that you control your instance of the distributed system. You don't necessarily have access to the centralized system, and if you do, it's unlikely you have push rights, so your ability to improve the system is bounded by what the owner wants.

> It's not clear what point is being made here. A benefit of distributed systems over non-distributed (centralized?) systems? Why can't centralized systems improve over time?

In practice distributed systems tend to fossilize much faster and almost all innovation is in centralized layers on top of them...