# Voter apathy

`kaal:entity:voter-apathy`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `voter-apathy`. 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 2022.

**2021**

- [3808873-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-018) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for organizing society, because exclusive reliance on a single legal document combined with widespread voter apathy makes the constitutional model appear to be the only lasting form of organization.
  > Overreliance on the design of constitutional democracies limits experimentation with decentralized solutions for the organization of society.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

**2022**

- [4067783-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4067783-013) [mechanism/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Dispersed, passive token holders cannot defend a DAO: because power in Build Finance DAO was not decentralized, the silent majority of token holders lacked the voting power to block the takeover, after which the attacker minted and sold tokens by draining liquidity pools.
  > Because of the lack of decentralized power in the Build Finance DAO, the silent majority of token holders did not have enough voting power to prevent the takeover. As a result, the attacker minted and sold various tokens by draining liquidity pools.
  Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Fallacies (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4067783

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