Perverse or not, it survived in the Darwinian sense.
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Well the idea is that you can buy reputation. Which is not ideal.
Trying to measure reputation outside the constraints of money? What if money is our crappy but best measuring stick for other things like power, knowledge, time, reputation, etc.?
The (fiat) money system is rigged, by those who control, or are close to the money printing facility. It leads to a system of essentially debt slavery, and propaganda. Bitcoin is the next evolution in money, by providing a much less rigged system, with no money printer. You can perfectly say that the current system of debt slavery is the best we can do. But other can say, let's innovate, and make a better system. That's how bitcoin was created. And now that we have bitcoin we can try and create a better reputation system. Nostr needs one anyway.
Right on. The algorithm for reputation may not need to change… despite changes in the fundamental definition money?