# kaal:claim:3808859-016

**Claim.** Diversity of inputs raises the value of network membership: because contributions increasingly come from the edges of the system, they are less homogenous and more diverse, which increases the utility of membership for every node.

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

**Holds when.**

- holds where information is non-consumptive and computing power is progressively cheaper

**Source quote.**

> Because individual inputs come increasingly from the edges of the system, the inputs are less homogenous and more diverse which increases the utility of network membership for each member or node.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades* (2021), III.4 Networked Information Economy, page 26

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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**Topics.** economics

**Keywords.** network-utility, edge-of-network, diversity, information-economy

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