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I guess you can’t change human weakness, or preference with clever technology. I don’t think whuffie automatically make things more meritocratic. Maybe it would just go in the other direction where things would be more about what people like socially…so popularity. So if anything it’ll be more political and cliquey. Regarding your “nepotism”, I think it would just reflect human nature in the sense that even now child…
Complete agreement on all fronts, though I still wish there better forces for giving children without influential parents the same opportunities as those with (or at least a decent fraction of). Regardless, I blast some Whuffie in your direction, good sir.
Minor correction: influential good parents. good is the important thing here otherwise there’s more suffering than opportunities, which only hampers not supports. Not to wish poverty, but there can be goodness and even less suffering in relative poverty. It all comes down to how good people choose to be.