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.
Well, letting everyone make their own definitions of “being a good person” does not seem to be working out very well right now… So it might not be the worst idea to at least give feedback when you’re being a piece of shit or positively impacting other people’s lives.
What could go wrong?
It’s not like that’s what have been done by every religion in the world. And they all did a great job making the world a better place to live /s