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   "text": "Centralized platform fees charged to requesters for the right to submit tasks exert downward pressure on worker compensation, so the fee structure itself is what depresses pay.",
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   "text": "Removing centralized fees produces a more efficient marketplace for workers, verifiers, and requesters alike by eliminating rent seeking intermediaries, leaving gas for posters as the only cost.",
   "abstract": "The lack of fees on the Semada platform creates a more efficient marketplace for workers, verifiers, and requesters alike through the removal of the rent seeking intermediators.",
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   "text": "A decentralized network of DAOs is significantly more efficient than a centralized platform because the centralized intermediary fee, twenty five percent in Uber's case, can instead be shared between the driver members and the passengers.",
   "abstract": "Second, the decentralized network of DAOs is significantly more efficient because the centralized fees, e.g. in Uber's case 25%, can be shared between the drivers / DAO members and the passengers.",
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   "text": "Because decentralized cryptocurrency platforms have lower cost structures, they can remove the consumer fees integral to centralized competitors, which eradicates downward pressure on platform worker compensation and creates a more efficient marketplace by removing rent seeking intermediaries.",
   "abstract": "Removing such centralized fees also allows for the eradication of downward pressure on the platforms' worker compensation. The lack of fees can help create a more efficient marketplace through the removal of the rent seeking intermediators.",
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