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by neurotrace 1631 days ago
> being proud of one's economic transaction history would be awesome.

I sincerely doubt we'll ever see that. First off, Venmo has already tried to apply the social media formula to transactions. I don't know of a single person who reads their Venmo feed just for fun. Next, most transactions are boring and not worth sharing. "John bought toilet paper and Q-tips. [Like] [Retweet]".

You state that the move to hyper-publicity that we've already seen hasn't reached it's peak for usefulness and yet there are already widespread conversations about the dangers and pain that this hyper-publicity has caused.

If we reach a future where people are "proud" of their transactions and are sharing them everywhere then we've made a horrible mistake.