Editing Reputation (section)

==== ''5. Grounding'' ====
To guarantee reputation is '''grounded''' in meaning, the only time a REP token is minted is when the DAO gains money from outside the organization, when fees are paid for work done by members (REP Minting Mechanism). Fungible cash money is thus seen as a mediator of value between different DAO’s REP types, and is a representative of universal energy. 

This grounding of value in money distributed to the whole DAO through the REP salary, combined with the validation provided by the weighted-democratic review of the Validation Pool mechanism, gives observers of the process confidence in the individual member of the DAO who earned the REP tokens, which promotes trust in all REP in the DAO, which encourages business transactions with the DAO.