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These kinds of apps are inevitable. We will see apps that rate drivers, workers, and just people. I'm not as worried about the apps, but rather with someone gam

• seanp2k2 10y ago
  Yup, they're inventing another game to play here, just like credit scores. If you know that you're playing a game and you understand the rules, you can usually figure out how to play better than most while investing the minimum amount of time playing. If you don't know that you're playing a game or you aren't aware of the rules, you'll spend a lot of time being upset and losing money, typically. It's also true with credit cards. If you don't understand merchant fees and maximizing your rewards from purchases you'd otherwise make while simultaneously bolstering your credit score, you're leaving money on the table. Humans will hopefully look back in a few hundred years and realize how futile and terrible of an idea it was to attempt to gamify every aspect of our lives so some company or another can extract a profit from the unsavvy, but since there is so much "value" to be "created" right now, I doubt that it'll happen any time soon under our current system of governance and beliefs about property, taxes, "free" markets, etc.