@JMarkOckerbloom

"Every crisis taught a lesson. The lesson was never that secrecy and top-down decision-making were wrong on principle. The lesson was always that secrecy was operationally expensive and should be handled more carefully next time."

This is deeply wrong. Top-down decision-making (aka "power") and secrecy are know to be wrong on principle since centuries. They ALWAYS end in workers exploitation and abuse. True democracy (aka "efficient counter-powers") is the only known remedy.