[the_lonely_road]

Yes this is a good society. If your passion is cutting hair that’s fine, spend your life cutting hair. You might add value to 10,000 other humans before you die of natural causes at a ripe old age. If your passion is developing video games and you make a sleeper hit like Stardew Valley that is purchased and enjoyed by 20,000,000 other humans why shouldn’t you receive “social credit” ie money well in excess of the person that cut 10,000 people’s hair?

It’s not fair and it’s not meant to be fair. It’s meant to allocate limited resources in an efficient manner. Doing something people don’t care about or producing something people don’t care about, get nothing back. Do something people value or produce something they want and get the amount they value it back.

I’m aware that grifters exist and some people make money that shouldn’t make it like violently taking it from others that earned it or tricking people into giving away money they didn’t want to but you don’t cancel a system because it can’t run perfect. If we did that we would have to shut down public schools because a few teachers have sex with children, shut down the military because a few soldiers snapped on a civilian, and the list goes on and on.