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“Money is the root of all evil” misses the fact that bitcoin != fiat.
“Trust and reputation systems are evil” likewise misses the fact that decentralized web of trust, when done right, != CCP-style social credit scores.
You seem to not understand that a proper web of trust (like nostr:npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3 's proposals) is **subjective**. So yea, YOU control the social credit score you assign to others. Duh.
If you want to take the opinion of some other, external "social credit score" - like one created by a curator of sorts - you are free to trust that curation node as much as you'd like, in your balance of other curators + your own 1st hand opinion.
This is a difficult concept because nothing in our digital world works this way yet (although it is exactly how your brain works. Thus the obviously-correct nature of this solution)
A decentralized network cannot have anything but a subjective trust metric if it wants to retain the qualities that make it useful, powerful and open.
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Right. There's nothing stopping someone from making a credit agency. But there's also nothing _forcing_ anyone else to heed the ratings they publish.