# kaal:claim:3071378-034

**Claim.** Disenfranchised communities will increasingly be able to afford the buy-in to a DAO, and increasing access to DAOs eradicates a possible income based or wealth based bias, since participation requires purchasing a coin or token.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- DAO membership conditioned on acquiring a token

**Source quote.**

> Disenfranchised communities will increasingly be able to afford the buy-in into a DAO. The increasing access to DAOs eradicates a possible income based or wealth based bias because participants in the DAO are required to buy into the DAO.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America* (2017), IV.2 DAOs as Equalizing Organizations, page 23

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

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**Topics.** dao, tokenomics

**Keywords.** dao, token-buy-in, wealth-bias, access, prediction

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