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   "text": "Paying DevDAO salaries in fungible stable tokens in proportion to members' non fungible reputation scores makes the economic benefit indirect, which removes corruptive elements and makes the governance design more attack resistant and stable over the long run.",
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   "text": "The reputation based DevDAO governance design creates a positive sum game, because members have incentives to build lasting non fungible value through a long term record of productive cooperation that improves the DevDAO itself.",
   "abstract": "By contrast, the reputation- based DevDAO governance design creates a positive-sum game because DevDAO members have incentives to create lasting non- fungible value for the DevDAO by developing a long-term non- fungible record of productive cooperation that in effect improves the DevDAO.",
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   "text": "DevDAO member reputation is inflationary by design, so that non use, meaning failure to stake reputation tokens or to vote, causes value depreciation, which incentivizes action and makes liveness faults less likely.",
   "abstract": "The DevDAO member reputation is inflationary in the DevDAO design. As such, non-use, e.g. non-staking of reputation tokens or non-voting, would lead to value depreciation, which incentivizes action and thus value enhancement. Liveness faults become less likely.",
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   "text": "Reputation weighted salary distribution defeats sock puppet attacks, because a member who creates ten accounts holding one reputation token each ends up in the same position as one account holding ten reputation tokens.",
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