It works out if the only value is celebrity.
Well, I liked it that a bunch of randos owned Disneyworld instead of a giant corporate entity.
Its ok, you can tell us youâre talking about Trump, we can take it.
It was a fun read, but not exactly an ideal society.
in reality, many people are delighted to treat such jerks as âstrong, decisive people who tell it like it is.â
Got anyone in mind here, Cory?
Reminder: the guy who coined the word âmeritocracyâ intended it to be a pejorative.
The problem with one reputation based currency is that it will force opinions to be only of the âmajority approvedâ, with dissent - real or imagined - being punished hard and fast. Non-approved opinions would then have to be discussed in secret, in hushed whispers and dim light.
And then there would be guilt by association pushed, so if a friend says something âwrongâ you would have to choose between losing âwealthâ or cutting the contact. This would further enforce the social compliance, by threat of effective banishment/excommunication.
Added one Like to your Boingboing reputation score. Use it wisely, because I can take it away again.
Whatever happened to that Peeple app? The âyelp for peopleâ
That issue applies similarly to professional reputations generally, right?
But, but, but, I inspired many people to work really hard on that project!
I always find it interesting that authors of supposedly utopian fiction almost never see their own fiction as utopian.
Hrm⊠I recall @doctorow praising the idea of a reputation economy back in the last decade.
Anyway if heâs changed his mind then âyayâ. Heâd be Scrooge McDuck rich and Iâd be J. Wellington Wimpy poor. Cette inĂ©galitĂ©!
Iâd say no. I have several kinds of professional reputations for unrelated skillsets but aside from being unable to use either to buy groceries, they dont translate into greater hiring opportunities even indirectly as there are so many other soft factors which go into hiring and pay decisions.
Wrote that one before Trump entered the race, as it happens!
Sounds like Gandalf in Nippon. 
No professional licenses? Certifications? Degrees? Title to assets?
Itâs hard and expensive to credibly appraise fair market value of an asset like professional goodwill.
The job is maybe not as hard as coding a Whuffie algorithm but still ⊠@doctorow was writing fiction.
Theyâre actually implementing that in China.
Yes. Voluntary so far. Once they get critical mass, it will be mandatory.
Matter of time until it gets here too. It is a bit too useful population control method to pass on.
This is a topic Iâve been pondering a lot lately. Post-Industrial futurism is a hobby of mine and I was in the early P2P discussions about digital currencies that led to Bitcoin. Recently, I wrote a paper for a Tallinn U project that explored reputation based economies built on Semantic Web technology as an alternative to inherently problematic numeric abstractions. Iâve long followed the development of Social-Semantic Network concepts like Netention and sought to envision the integration of networked production infrastructures with Social-Semantic networking to âweightâ the distribution flow of resources in the built habitat according to associative analysis of the congruence between individual and societal intention. And so I devised what I call the Digital Tao; an internet that knows you as a person and has a âpronoiaâ imperativeâa secret digital conspiracy to help you and everyone else. Sadly, my paper was rejected (Iâm an amateur, after all) but it did help me fight my recent depression.
