# kaal:claim:4755632-032

**Claim.** Price discovery is a public service function because without public pricing consumers cannot realistically select the service provider offering the highest value, and the resulting lack of transparency enables insider deals to the detriment of clients forced into prices dictated by a group of firms.

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

**Holds when.**

- applies to markets without publicly transparent pricing

**Source quote.**

> without public pricing, consumers cannot realistically select the service provider that provides the highest value to the job poster. The lack of transparency enables insider deals to the detriment of the clients, who are forced into the price a group of firms dictates.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning* (2024), Price Discovery, page 43

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4755632

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**Failure mode.** Opacity Enables Insider Deals  (family: information-asymmetry)

**Topics.** economics, disclosure

**Keywords.** price-discovery, insider-deals, consumer-choice, market-transparency

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-026
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-034

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