I agree that current technical systems must not assume trust, for as long as we have malicious agents. IMO we should not let this be baked into the fabric of hu

I agree that current technical systems must not assume trust, for as long as we have malicious agents. IMO we should not let this be baked into the fabric of human society though. And for the record, I believe it is possible to achieve what I am talking about in conditions and general spirit of market and capitalism. Suppressing personal choice (USSR- and China-style) is not the way to get there, it is in fact the opposite—making people feel psychologically secure enough to not feel compelled to be malicious is one thing; forcing them into constraints that prevent them from being malicious does not solve the issue and only obscures it (and besides, party elites will always be free to be whatever they want). In fact, it is the parallels between blockchain-based social system and some emerging Chinese realities (social karma, etc.) that worry me.