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Think of the upside if your status followed you everywhere you went, and instead of relying on human decency you could expect treatment in proportion to your be
by lumber-pail 8y ago
Think of the upside if your status followed you everywhere you went, and instead of relying on human decency you could expect treatment in proportion to your behavior.
Something like this will inevitably arrive in the West due to human desire for status. Not much different from a thousand little decisions you make every day getting dressed and walking down the street that show the world who you are and what your values are. Now conveniently bundled and accessible to all.
Our grandchildren will wonder how we did business online without it.
- shadowxs76 8y agoI consider this to be a potentially terrifying idea. Maybe if "status" were rigorously kept to measurements of honesty and reliability that are as objective and unbiased as possible, I could see it working reasonably well but the much more probable reality would be one of crushing conformity to established social trends and a tendency toward ostracizing people who don't follow along with them, even if those trends (by virtue of being trends) aren't at all reasonably objective measurements of good, bad or moral in a person.