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For some perspective, the weaponization of cliques and "othering" is very old, and it has worked for just as long. We call it politics.

But a state sponsored gamified social network where the incentives are all designed by the ruling class, and the penalties have the force of law, is pretty darn awful.

Hopefully the affected citizens prove to be as unpredictable and hard to control as others have in the past, because that's really their only hope.