Bottom line is scaling will not accompany decentralization in Bitcoin.
So just go ahead already and increase the block size and accept that Bitcoin is not going to remain decentralized. And someone will make a decentralized side chain for all those knowledge capitalists to escape to.
Or fight for a Core that is decentralized with small blocks and very high txs fees, and let the side chains be centralized for the high volume. But this option appears to be doomed because it doesn't have anonymity and 100% censorship-free attributes. So much better we go the other route. Let Gavinmike have their NWOcoin.