# Tradeoffs

`kaal:entity:tradeoffs`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `tradeoffs`. 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

4 claims across 3 works, 2018 to 2023.

**2018**

- [3128900-045](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-045) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Centralized platforms cannot simply drop identity verification, because they need it to keep malicious actors from abusing the network and to ensure work quality; this is the tradeoff a staking based design is meant to dissolve.
  > However, centralized micro task platforms need to verify identity to prevent malicious actors from abusing the network and ensure work quality.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

**2021**

- [3782220-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782220-008) [mechanism/argued] -- The intuition that strengthening one pole of a value pair necessarily diminishes its opposite is plainly false in any complex situation.
  > Each pair of values is in tension with its opposite. It is natural to imagine that strengthening one diminishes its opposite. But that is plainly false in any complex sit- uation.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220
- [3782220-039](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782220-039) [mechanism/argued] -- Decentralized organizations demand more from their members and return more autonomous power and profit, whereas centralized organizations shelter members in a niche and limit and stultify their power in exchange for security.
  > Decentralized organizations demand more from their members and return more, in autonomous power and profit. Centralized organizations shelter their members within a niche in a hierarchy. Centralized organizations limit the power of their mem- bers, stultifying them,
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

**2023**

- [4529715-039](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4529715-039) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Big Green DAO's committee unanimity and closed membership make attacks unlikely, but these same protections come at the expense of the decentralized organization the founders were trying to create.
  > However, these principles really limit what a DAO is supposed to be so in a way it is secure, but also at the expense of the organization they were trying to create.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis (2023). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4529715

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