# Cost-cutting

2018-10-24

> Disintermediation matters because it inverts the control structure of the network, but cost-cutting matters too. Cost-cutting matters because the society of computers isn’t going to work if participation costs money. That’s how wealth translates into power. Coders should not have to front the cost of hosting their own work – the network should.

> Why bother with P2P when you still need to guarantee uptime? (cache)

I’m all for reducing costs but only if we consider the global cost for the planet. P2P is more resilient but not efficient when it comes to energy and here is the paradox: developing more decentralized and resilient practices will make the efficiency drop and as such consume even more energy. So we have to both decentralize and reduce (bandwidth, connections, etc in that particular case). It’s like a rebound effect but somehow reversed.

Let’s call it “bound effect”.

Other articles in English: On caching links, Bushcraft retrospective, Into the Raft, Into the Bugs, Meritocracy crisis, The Seller, the Teacher and the Wise, Into the Good, Into the Mice, Into the Camp, Into the Wind, Into the Snow, Into the Cold, Async Python Frameworks, Distributed teams, Into the Wild, Without JavaScript, Inclusive Python, Micro-cultures and governance, Resilient Web and Tools, Bitcoin and energy, Team building, Inclusive developer, Cultural Intimacy, Tools and teams, Senior developer, Slow Data, Inclusive communities, Delivery and value(s), Collaboration debt, Communities and leadership, Specifications and APIs. Oh, and most of the 2018 thoughts.