2024-08-0611:54 Status:Brief Tags: Power Class solidarity
Defection from a common goal (for whatever reason) makes the end goal significantly harder to achieve for two reasons: People are significantly more likely to defect with the traitors once one has the resolve to do so; and there is less pressure on whomever is being sieged. This idea was developed by Marshall Pease, Robert Shostak and Leslie Lamport in 1982: describes the general difficulty of coordinating the actions of several independent parties in a distributed system.
