>>1862343What about examples of neighboring communities with vastly different cultures but the ability to collaborate in an organized manner?
I think a significant example is the phenomenon of "linux distros" in the open source community. Each iteration of the Linux kernel and accompanying repositories are their own separate entity with different cultures, but are able to cross collaborate effectively making technology greater and more accessible as a whole. Conflict is avoided because in any open source project, a dissenting group can simply fork the project and start their own branch of development. Notably, this has occurred in Bitcoin, and also the entire ecosystem of crypto coins represents community bifurcation success stories. This is preferable to power struggles, which leave community members dissatisfied long term and creates toxic entropy.
It is attractive to criticize open source inefficiency ( or even the localized conflicts within those communities) and imagine top down centralized control models, reminiscent of corporate structures that could prevent parallel developments; however the more coercion that motivates a human the less creative and motivated they will be in any production scheme. Linux has also successfully bridged the corporate world with open source, so much so that Microsoft caters to Linux based clientele.
This has allowed collaboration between centralized entities and more decentralized groups; proving that the adage "different strokes for different folks" might be the best way to deal with picky, temperamental, moody, sometimes chronically ill, culturally diverse, hairless monkeys that lack robotic standardization/predictability.
