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by krm01 2169 days ago
Interesting idea. When people post stuff on Linkedin, under their public “professional” persona, they tend to behave in a certain way. I wonder what would happen if this was a social network, where your posts consist of stuff you spend money on. How much would it change the way you handle your dollars.
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While it sounds very interesting in the beginning with a ton of things, i would argue that at the end of the day, people stoped carring.

You can, for example, see whatever people are earning in Sweden.

As soon as it is allowed and possible, things like this just become a novelty.

There was one guy having data on how often he pleasured himself. First thought 'oh interesting' second thought 'mh okay so what'.

I'd argue that it would have a detrimental effect, where you must be spending money on whatever is considered hype at that point in time or else you are consider not cool and get cancelled.
Venmo surfaces something along these lines, there is a social “feed” of your friend’s transfers and messages to each other.
It hasn't always been this way, but the current default is to set transactions to private. I've never allowed a Venmo transaction to be public.