# kaal:claim:3782220-015

**Claim.** Overhead institutions that protect or promote essentials should be governed and borne by the group, while those protecting nonessentials should be governed and borne privately, with each DAO deciding for itself what is essential to its function.

**Type.** design  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- per DAO determination
- democratic decision within the DAO's own system

**Source quote.**

> Overhead institutions to protect or promote essentials should be governed and borne by the group, protecting and promoting non- essentials should be governed and borne privately. Each DAO must decide what is es- sential to its function;

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization* (2021), Integrating polar values, page 5

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

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**Topics.** institutional-design, dao, governance-design

**Keywords.** overhead-institutions, dao-governance, essentials, cost-allocation

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