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Rent seeking
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying rent-seeking. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 2740477-010 : Incumbent firms facing the competitive disadvantage created by disruptive entrants respond by using the existing regulatory process itself to build obstacles to competition, which converts rulemaking
- 2808132-011 : Incumbent firms facing a perceived threat from disruptive innovation may respond by using the existing regulatory process itself to create obstacles that prevent disruptive firms from competing.
- 3125822-023 : The platform's feedback loop is closed in the sense that there are no rent seeking owners: the system is entirely supported by its users and the users reap the entire profit.
- 3125822-026 : The token economy is inflationary at equilibrium, and this inflation is a feature rather than a defect because it improves security and discourages rent seeking holding of reputation.
- 3125827-020 : The current dominance of altruists in the crypto space will not persist: once the crypto economy matures, an influx of hedgers and rent seekers can be anticipated with certainty, and they will exploit
- 3125827-033 : If the bench institutes protocols for rejecting applicants through the validation pool, it gains both the incentive and the opportunity to block all new users entirely, so that existing bench members
- 3125827-038 : The sem token economy is inflationary at equilibrium, and the authors argue this is a feature: inflation improves security and discourages rent seeking by penalizing holders who do not use their token
- 3128900-035 : Centralized mechanical turk marketplace leaders operate as rent seeking intermediaries that generate numerous inefficiencies in the market and deprive freelance workers of a share in the profits the p
- 3128900-036 : Centralized industry leaders in the freelancer market, including Upwork, Amazon, and Fiverr, charge up to 40 percent in transaction fees.
- 3227933-033 : A DAO inhibits rent-seeking and delivers transparency because its governance protocols are open source, so weaknesses are constantly tested and revised in the open rather than hidden inside a manageri
- 3406323-013 : 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
- 3782192-011 : Corruption is defined as a minority subgroup collecting the power or wealth of an organization for its own benefit at the expense of the larger group.
- 3782193-029 : Good ideas will fail to be implemented unless the reward structure is balanced, because people rarely keep working idealistically toward group goals while rent seekers at the top split the rewards unf
- 3782205-016 : If an organization's goal is to maintain decentralization, its tools must be used deliberately to prevent the natural concentration of power that occurs when economic inefficiencies create pockets of
- 3936876-039 : Where owners do not rely on the cryptography of the wallet and of each transaction to avoid trusted third parties, single points of failure, rent seeking behaviors and other suboptimal outcomes of leg
- 3936876-040 : Delegation of rights to custody providers is only an incremental step toward centralization via delegation to third party investment managers, and it opens a floodgate because each additional level of
- 4957318-011 : Sunset provisions likely increase rents extracted by interest groups and entrench current majoritarian preferences, and they can create planning problems for both public and private actors.
- 4957318-035 : The WDAG system suppresses rent seeking by internalizing advocacy: there are no external costs or lobbying pressures because any advocacy occurs transparently within the system's forums, where all use
- 6192998-002 : Solving the identity problem through centralized control fails on its own terms: it reintroduces rent seeking intermediaries who extract value, censor participants, and create single points of failure