It's not the IoT that I'm arguing against, it's the reputation system. I think that it's fairly dystopian and unfair, and even if it comes into play as you've p

It's not the IoT that I'm arguing against, it's the reputation system. I think that it's fairly dystopian and unfair, and even if it comes into play as you've predicted eventually a significant percentage of people will just abandon or ignore it just like they do with many other reputation systems.