# Platform fees

`kaal:entity:platform-fees`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `platform-fees`. 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, 2018 to 2019.

**2018**

- [3128900-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-038) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > Such centralized fees add downward pressure on the platforms' worker compensation.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900
- [3128900-039](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-039) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > 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.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900
- [3266953-039](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-039) [design/argued] -- 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.
  > 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.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

**2019**

- [3406323-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-013) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > 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.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323

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