# Exploitation

`kaal:entity:exploitation`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `exploitation`. 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

4 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782203-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-017) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- However rules are formalized in a realistic setting, there exist strategies that follow the rules yet subvert the intentions of the framers, so legal strategies will always be available that profit an individual adversary at the expense of the group.
  > This leads to the intuition that however rules are formalized in a realistic situation, there are strategies which follow the rules, but still subvert the intentions of the fram- ers. There are legal strategies that profit the individual adversary at the expense of the group.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203
- [3782203-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-018) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Reputation policing games explain why a business will rationally tolerate a small level of theft when policing costs more than the loss, which also explains the rationality of long-term parasitic and bullying relationships and creates a need for careful protocol design to prevent that corruption.
  > Similar game setups with reputation policing explain the situation where a busi- ness will rationally tolerate a small level of theft when policing is more expensive, such as when a grocer will ignore a street urchin who nabs an apple once per day.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203
- [3782217-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782217-006) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A DAO that relies on a centralized oracle will eventually be exploited, because the people controlling the oracle will become aware of their power over automated contract triggers and, given the competitive nature of capitalism, are right to take advantage of it.
  > Eventually, the people who have the relevant power in the centralized oracle will become aware of the power they have over the DAO. Eventually there will be an opportunity to exploit that information.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217
- [3981021-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-006) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Modern philanthropy limits the autonomy of grassroots charitable organizations and substitutes a leveraged and exploitive relationship in which the goals of the donor are served above all.
  > there is a growing concern amongst commentators that modern philanthropy limits the autonomy of grassroots charitable organizations and replaces it with a leveraged and exploitive relationship where the goals of the donor are served above all.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021

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