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   "text": "To form consensus and offset worker error, requesters in centralized micro task structures assign teams of up to fifteen workers to the same task, and the resulting multiplication of work significantly increases the cost of micro task work and produces waste when requesters pay proportionally for redundant output.",
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   "text": "The necessity of duplicating micro task work depresses worker pay: it subjects micro task workers to lower rates and prevents payment increases, so redundancy based quality control is financed out of worker compensation.",
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   "text": "DAO governance and policing functions reduce duplication of code reviews, so decentralized community policing substitutes for the redundant parallel work that centralized platforms use to assure quality.",
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   "text": "Reputation based market dynamics lower the cost of duplication relative to centralized micro task work: where a reliable high reputation worker completes the task, duplication can fall from fifteen to five or fewer in a decentralized setup, which is what enables scaling of micro task work.",
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