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mk  ·  1318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00's Reviews: The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang

    Importantly, Yang's social credit never goes negative, thereby making it an incentive rather than a mechanism of punishment. Of course you could obviously restrict voting to people with a lifetime social credit of 5000 or some other dystopian shit but it's an interesting idea.

Have you read Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom? This reminds me of Whuffie.

I harbor a slow-developing theory that we are headed towards a post-money society, because money is an inefficient and game-able proxy for value. The technology isn't there yet, but the need is. I see trust-less digital scarcity as one necessary step towards this reality.

I suspect that we will move through an uncomfortable phase of centralized social credit before we can arrive at decentralized social credit, but maybe not.