Who Gets to Say What’s True: The 5,000-Year Power Structure That Portable Identity Destroys For 5,000 years, power belonged to whoever could say: ”This is true about you—and you cannot prove otherwise.” Priests verified your spiritual worthiness. States verified your legal existence. Universities verified your capability. Employers verified your value. Banks verified your trustworthiness. Platforms … The Verification Monopoly
For 5,000 years, whoever controlled the answer to ”who created this value?” controlled everything. Portable Identity makes that question answerable by individuals—cryptographically, permanently, completely. The most important power in civilization has never been the power to create value. It has been the power to attribute value. The power to say: ”This person created this”—and make … How Cascade Proof Destroys Every Power Structure Built on Attribution Control
When Citizens Know More About Themselves Than Institutions Do—And Why This Has Never Happened Before For the first time in human history, technology makes information symmetry possible. And information symmetry makes every existing power structure optional. Executive Summary: All institutional power in human history has been built on information asymmetry—institutions knowing more about you than … THE INFORMATION SYMMETRY SHIFT