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Social Tokens: The Economy of You

The promise and peril of social tokens.

Mario Gabriele
May 08, 2022
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At some point in the process of devising a tech satire, you might come up with an idea like this: 

What if every person in the world had their own currency? (No, no, no. Not like everyone had money. This isn’t a utopia.) I mean, like everyone had a token or a coin of their own that other people could buy and sell and maybe pay with. If you wanted to hang…

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