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   "text": "The combined efficiencies of the DAO model suggest that DAO businesses could overcome collective action problems and outcompete existing internet based businesses such as Uber.",
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   "text": "Decentralized money and decentralized contracts have been built, but decentralized business will not work until roughly eight further decentralized institutions that people actually use in business are built.",
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   "text": "Money and contracts are worthless in business with counterparties who cannot be trusted to keep a bargain, so decentralized commerce requires a system in which reputation means something.",
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