# kaal:claim:3782210-018

**Claim.** Distributing salary equitably, for example equally to all members, is self-defeating: the obvious gaming strategy becomes creating multiple accounts and distributing one's work between them, which is why the salary must be reputation-weighted.

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

**Holds when.**

- open membership systems where accounts are cheap to create

**Source quote.**

> If salary is distributed more equitably, say equally to all members, then the obvious strategy for gaming the system is to create multiple accounts and distribute your work between the accounts.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Inductive argument for reputation architecture, page 6

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210

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**Failure mode.** Equal salary sockpuppet exploit  (family: sybil-and-identity-attack)

**Topics.** consensus-and-security, reputation, regulatory-failure

**Keywords.** egalitarian-distribution, sockpuppet-attack, reputation-weighting, gaming

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-036
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-039
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-028

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