# kaal:claim:3128900-009

**Claim.** Consensus by redundancy fails economically: multiplying the same work across many workers significantly increases the cost of micro task work.

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

**Holds when.**

- centralized platforms using redundant task assignment

**Source quote.**

> The multiplication of work inherent in this process significantly increases the cost of micro task work.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation* (2018), 1 Problems in Centralized Mechanical Turk, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

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**Failure mode.** Redundancy cost multiplication  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** consensus-by-redundancy, cost-structure, quality-control, micro-tasks

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-011

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