In the educational system, you start with 100% at the start of the year and every time you get something wrong, your grade goes down. You want an A? Just do twice as much, you know, and you can get the day. And it is going that way, right? We are going to have a squandable abundance of energy and water and food as we reinvent how we do these things. The social credit scoring systems that are being piloted in China seem better than authoritarian surveillance state programs because people feel like their communities are getting safer or better when there are few ways to lose points.

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