Hrm… I recall @doctorow praising the idea of a reputation economy back in the last decade.
Anyway if he’s changed his mind then “yay”. He’d be Scrooge McDuck rich and I’d be J. Wellington Wimpy poor. Cette inégalité!
I’d 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.