# Sunk cost

`kaal:entity:sunk-cost`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `sunk-cost`. 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

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3799320-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-035) [mechanism/argued] -- Charging an admission fee disincentivizes betrayal and defection, because the sunk cost of joining makes cheating expensive when rejoining would also be expensive even under anonymity.
  > The DAO of DAOs disincentivizes betrayal and defection by charging an admission fee to become a DAO of DAOs member. Given the sunk cost of joining the DAO of DAOs, it is more expensive for prospective members to cheat because it would be expensive to rejoin even if members could be anonymous.
  Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320
- [3981021-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-032) [mechanism/argued] -- Charging an admission or denial of service fee to become a voting associate disincentivizes betrayal and defection, because the sunk cost of joining makes cheating expensive even where associates can remain anonymous.
  > - The CHARITYxDAO disincentivize betrayal and defection by charging an admission fee, ie. DoS fee to become a CHARITYxDAO VA. Given the sunk cost of joining the CHARITYxDAO, it is more expensive for prospective VAs to cheat because it would be expensive to rejoin even if VAs could be anonymous.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021

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