# Price pressure

`kaal:entity:price-pressure`

**Status.** derived

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

- [3995709-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-022) [mechanism/argued] -- Because customers cannot afford to search for better priced code reviews and are forced into cartel pricing to obtain market acceptance of their products, cartelization undermines any form of downward price pressure.
  > Customers cannot afford to look for better priced code reviews and are forced into the cartel pricing to obtain market acceptance of their products. In turn, the cartelization of the market undermines any form of downward price pressure.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

**2024**

- [4734750-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-019) [mechanism/argued] -- Because job posters cannot afford to shop for better priced reviews and must buy market acceptance, centralization of the code review market eliminates any form of downward price pressure.
  > In turn, the centralization of the market undermines any form of downward price pressure.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750
- [4755632-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-025) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Concentrated market power in code review undermines internal and external quality controls, leaving the public with no or very weak control over the quality of code review services, and it eliminates downward price pressure because job posters cannot afford to shop for better-priced reviews.
  > The centralized power also undermines attempts by other industry players to create internal or external controls on the quality of code reviews. As a result, the public has no or very weak control over the quality of code review services it receives.
  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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