In this collaborative piece between the DAO Research Collective and The Defiant, David Kerr and Bruno Lulinski explore why people in the broader crypto community organize around the concept of decentralization. The duo dives into the different components of decentralization, the benefits of decentralized systems, examples of how different projects have approached the process of decentralizing, and good-faith critiques of decentralization. One of the more interesting distinctions made in the essay is between legal, economic, and technical decentralization. Kerr and Lulinski not only explain the difference, but also the implications of each in the real world with regards to various organizations and systems. The piece is the first in a series of collaborations between the two organizations.