# kaal:claim:3808873-001

**Claim.** Improved incentive design is necessary but not sufficient for decentralization: better decentralized incentive designs can accelerate adoption, yet design alone will not produce the decentralization of business and society, because adoption depends on society's acceptance and use of the technology.

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

**Holds when.**

- decentralized technology adoption at the level of business and society

**Source quote.**

> While improved decentralized incentive designs can accelerate adoption, design alone will not suffice in promoting the decentralization of business and society.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization Neutralizers* (2021), I. Introduction, page 1

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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**Failure mode.** Design Only Adoption Fallacy  (family: adoption-and-usability-barrier)

**Topics.** decentralization, risk-and-incentives, innovation

**Keywords.** decentralization, incentive-design, technology-adoption, social-acceptance

**Related claims.**

- supersedes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-019

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