# kaal:claim:3782201-019

**Claim.** The correct goal is not to eliminate the middlemen but to automate them, because unlike human middlemen automated middlemen can be designed so that they do not contribute to the corruption they were built to fight.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Automating these middlemen functions makes them more efficient, like the chemical catalysts in a cell. Unlike human middlemen, automated middlemen can be designed so that they don't contribute to the corruption they were designed to fight.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Future of Decentralization* (2021), The fallacy of Uniformitarianism and Chesterton’s fence, page 21

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

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**Topics.** ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** automation, intermediaries, corruption, individual-autonomy, design

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