Credit cards are plastic representations of currency. Currency is an abstract representation of the amount of effort you expend in a given period of time. Simply, when you work, you get paid (one hopes), and you exchange that effort of your labors for other things through this thing called money. Credit cards are just an easier way to move money between two points.
I believe that reputation, or the abstraction of it online, deserves a kind of credit card. I want some digital representation of who I am (identity), who I know (social graph), and what people think about me (reputation) to exist in some format.
Why can’t it? Because it’s a very subjective thing, reputation.
And yet, eBay has reputation as a system. LinkedIn has elements of reputation in their system. There are abstractions already happening in this space.
I want my card.
How about you?
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