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kleinbl00  ·  1311 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00's Reviews: The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang

I read nine-tenths of that shitty-ass book just so I could make this comment:

Yang's social credit has exactly fuckall to do with Doctorow's Whuffie because Doctorow's Whuffie is a poorly-thought-out strawman argument for esteem to replace not just money, not just commerce, but also criminal justice just so that he can make a really shitty argument about social media.

WHILE Doctorow was writing that book, ample evidence was documented in fucking Boing Boing no less that trolls liked trolls and that provocative acts earned plenty of prestige from people who liked provocative acts. Which did not prevent Doctorow from writing a shitty 1-world-government cautionary tale that didn't pay the scarcest attention to either the underpinnings nor the outcome of his system at an economic, social, geopolitical, physical or emotional level.

I'm mad at this book.

I'm mad at you for making me read this book.