# kaal:claim:4734750-034

**Claim.** Centralized requesters buy quality through redundancy, assigning up to fifteen workers to the same task to form consensus, which multiplies cost, produces waste, and pushes micro task worker rates down.

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

**Holds when.**

- centralized micro task platforms that lack reliable worker quality signals

**Source quote.**

> Requiring requesters to pay proportionally (e.g. up to 15 times) for work per project results in waste. The necessity of multiplication of work also subjects micro task workers to lower rates and lack of payment increases.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Code Review DAO* (2024), Duplication of Work, page 25

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

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**Failure mode.** Consensus by redundancy  (family: environmental-and-resource-cost)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** duplication, redundancy, micro-task-costs, worker-pay

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