# kaal:claim:3652481-005

**Claim.** Reputational penalties for non performance in a DAO are free from racial and cultural bias, because token holders are unlikely even to know one another.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- members are pseudonymous or unknown to each other

**Source quote.**

> Crucially, non-performance reputational penalties are entirely free from racial or cultural biases and associated implications as the token holders are unlikely to even know each other.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design* (2020), II.4 Value to Efforts Workflow, page 18

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481

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**Topics.** reputation

**Keywords.** bias, anonymity, reputation, non-discrimination

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-033
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3071378-037

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