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   "text": "People who work for a DAO are free from existing corporate hierarchies and their possible discriminatory effects because they are not subject to a supervisor, boss, or CEO.",
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   "text": "Because the DAO structure functions without supervisors, token holders who conclude they cannot add value on a task can move to more productive endeavors without incurring the penalties that would exist in a traditional hierarchical corporate structure.",
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   "text": "Spontaneous order is less likely to emerge unconstrained from interactions dispersed across a system if that system has a power or information center.",
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   "text": "Distributed self-organizing systems are nimbler than centralized ones and can efficiently self-repair at points of local failure through coordination without control.",
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   "text": "Because expert communities can be set up quickly and self organized through a WEB3 governance software suite, the agency structures used to supervise centralized legacy service providers become obsolete.",
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