# kaal:claim:3125822-025

**Claim.** A healthy expertise tag requires that fees from new commenters buying in remain smaller in the long term than fees from outside business; otherwise the expertise tag is simply a pyramid scheme.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- long term steady state of a mature expertise tag

**Source quote.**

> New commenter fees are expected to be smaller than outside business fees in the long term for healthy expertise tags; otherwise the expertise tag is simply a pyramid scheme.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, *Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A* (2018), 4.4.2.1 Basic salary definition, page 21

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

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**Failure mode.** pyramid scheme expertise tag  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** pyramid-scheme, platform-economics, fee-sources, sustainability

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