# Certification premium

`kaal:entity:certification-premium`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `certification-premium`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2024 to 2024.

**2024**

- [4734750-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-017) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Centralization of the code review industry causes systematic overpricing, because clients will pay nearly any price to obtain the approval stamp of one of the top five audit firms.
  > As a result of the centralization of the industry, most code reviews are significantly overpriced. Clients pretty much pay any price to get the stamp of approval from one of the top 5 audit firms.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750
- [4755632-024](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-024) [mechanism/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Centralization of the code review industry produces overpricing because clients will pay nearly any price to obtain the stamp of approval from one of the top five audit firms.
  > As a result of the centralization of the industry, most code reviews are significantly overpriced. Clients pretty much pay any price to get the stamp of approval from one of the top 5 audit firms.
  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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