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Adrian Hon on the Gamified Life

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Is a Social Credit Score a Good Idea?

Games have their place and can be useful tools, but they are not real life. If you see an app trying to incentivize you through badges or rewards, you should just go and say, is this really my benefit, or am I just being manipulated? That's where a lot of things end up at, unfortunately. How do we give work as more power to control the conditions of their work? Is that through unionization? Is thatthrough more regulation of workplaces? Is thatThrough giving work as more choices and where they can go?

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