# kaal:claim:3782193-029

**Claim.** Good ideas will fail to be implemented unless the reward structure is balanced, because people rarely keep working idealistically toward group goals while rent seekers at the top split the rewards unfairly.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- projects where rewards are visibly distributed among contributors

**Source quote.**

> Good ideas will fail to be implemented unless the reward struc- ture is balanced.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), The Apaches vs. Bitcoin, page 23

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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**Failure mode.** Unbalanced reward structure  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** risk-and-incentives, governance-design

**Keywords.** fair-distribution, incentive-design, rent-seeking, web3, governance

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