# Price opacity

`kaal:entity:price-opacity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `price-opacity`. 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

3 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2024.

**2021**

- [3995709-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-033) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Because the existing code review market provides no publicly transparent pricing, it arguably harms the public for the benefit of the cartel and its clients, since neither the client nor the code reviewer benefits from public scrutiny of cartel prices.
  > As such, the existing market arguably harms the public for the benefit of the cartel and its clients. In the existing system, the cartel pricing is not disclosed because both the client and code reviewer may not benefit from public scrutiny of the cartel prices.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

**2024**

- [4734750-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-025) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The existing code review market provides no publicly transparent pricing of review services, and that opacity arguably harms the public for the benefit of a few market players and their clients.
  > The existing code review market does not provide publicly transparent pricing of code review services.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750
- [4755632-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-031) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The existing code review market does not provide publicly transparent pricing, and that opacity is deliberate because neither client nor code reviewer benefits from public scrutiny of the prices, which arguably harms the public for the benefit of the few market players.
  > In the existing system, the unilateral pricing is not disclosed because both the client and code reviewer may not benefit from public scrutiny of the prices.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4755632

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