As a Cory Doctorow fundamentalist, I believe that my high karma score will eventually allow me to own Disney World. But it could be that it's just a crude ment

As a Cory Doctorow fundamentalist, I believe that my high karma score will eventually allow me to own Disney World. But it could be that it's just a crude mental hack that we substitute for all the normal social signals we get when we socialize in person. We can't smile, frown, applaud, backslap, suddenly remember a previous engagement, or cough pointedly here. Even a deliberate change of subject is hard to pull off when the posts appear in arbitrary order. All we can do is use karma.