the The city of Vienna with the idea for a token-based incentive and reward system in the next round. The city administration is planning, in cooperation with the Vienna University of Economics the implementation of a token that rewarded citizens for “lawful” behavior. This Form of behavioral Economics through Bitcoin is already tested in other countries, but it also has shadow sides.
Polina Khubbeeva
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After 2018, already experiments with food stamps on the Blockchain, developed by the city of Vienna, according to a report of Trending Topics, the idea of a token-based reward system for its residents. This was already announced in December and is now being implemented in cooperation with the Vienna University of Economics and business. Brigitte Lutz, “Data Governance coordinator” of the city, described at the time: “An idea would be to have a reward system using a Token. You could, for example, for a complaint about the city-Vienna-App a Token. This one might redeem, for example, in a Theater. Or you get a Token for each ride with the bike“. In addition to the Token, the Data Governance coordinator is also an Online Tool for individual data management plans. This is to ensure the citizens of autonomy and security at reception and the sharing of your documents.
Nudging as a gentle behaviour, control – harmless or underestimated?
For model citizens reap behavior rewards? The sounds after an Upgrade. Modern governmental approaches to decision-makers for quite some time, to regulate the behavior of individuals through incentives and reward systems, rather than through prohibitions and laws. “Nudge: How to incentivising smart choices,” is the basis of the work of Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.
What can be the problem with this Form of behavioural Economics, using the example of China to demonstrate The social credit policy of the largest economy in the world puts its citizens on a points system in the public and private life, permanent normalization of pressure. In other words: In China, the citizens will feel soon round-the-clock of his social credit controlled and not subject to slip due to a bad rating to the margins of society.
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It goes without saying that the approach of the Vienna Token is still far from such a dystopian reality. The idea to reward a police state mentality, but raises questions about the social impact of such a crypto-project.
