Humans like to make their scores go up, even unimportant scores. To encourage better behavior, society should very carefully create a number of scores that a person can track that positively impact society.
The numbers should only be for positive things.
There should be several independent scores.
Currently, individuals keep score based on net worth, number of cars/houses/lovers, etc.
This is NOT the same as the “social credit score”. There can be no punishment for doing poorly.
Some options to contribute to the brainstorming.
For people:
- Number of people positively impacted.
- Number of cats pet.
- Number of dogs complimented.
- Amount of trash picked up from the streets/parks/beaches/public places.
- Hungry people fed.
For businesses:
- Number of employees succeeding at life (I do not have a tight definition.)
- $ contributed to local public schools.
- Paid volunteer hours of employees to the community.
Keeping score for good things generally will lead to those points being abused so people can look good but not actually be good. Suddenly creating ranking for more good. Good vs evil where the lower tier can’t keep up so the actively don’t attempt to be good or even strive the other way.
It could work for businesses, we already have apps that scan labels to give info on the business practices and things like glassdoor for insight into the employee life