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by cookieswumchorr 1394 days ago
maybe with the adoption of remote work we can, in future, decouple our professional identities from our private ones. The idea is: your private life is too unpredictable to effectively protect data from leaking. You have hobbies, friends, family, you end up buying tons of stuff, going to places.

Professional life, on the other side, tends to be more organized. What if, in future, you can work online under a username, decoupled from your IRL self.

this is already the case for some folks who get tasks on freelance platforms and get paid in crypto. Maybe in future this could become more accepted, and more legal (as in paying taxes, but without compromising privacy too much)

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I absolutely love this, but that's not the direction the world is headed.

If we're to make anything close to what you describe widespread, I think a minimum of two ingredients is needed-- 1, multiple collectives/co-ops of multiple semi-anonymous people who are willing to pool their reputations together (who need to trust each other somewhat so might need potentially identifying info to cement that initially), and 2, companies or investors willing to take a chance on such collectives by putting them to work and developing a rating system.

I think doing both at the same time would be difficult to say the least. Could be a challenge worth learning from for some brave folks, though.