What is your Whuffie Value?

What is your What? Your what is Whuffie and I have taken this extract from Wikipedia (slightly edited by me) to explain it:

"Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. This book describes a post-scarcity economy: All the necessities (and most of the luxuries) of life are free for the taking. The usual economic incentives have disappeared from the book's world. Whuffie has replaced money,
providing a motivation for people to do useful and creative things. A person's Whuffie is a general measurement of his or her overall reputation, and Whuffie is lost and gained according to a person's favourable or unfavourable actions. The question is, who determines which actions are
favourable or unfavourable? In Down and Out, the answer is public opinion. Rudely pushing past someone on the sidewalk will definitely lose you points from them (and possibly bystanders who saw you), while composing a much-loved symphony will earn you Whuffie from everyone who enjoyed it;….. Whuffie helps make better decisions on a person-by-person basis, and thus is more flexible than rating someone by their bank account. Go to ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie for the full explanation"

So, try to imagine what our world (and you and me) would look like if we adopted this currency system.

Can you calculate your Whuffie value?

The other day I thought about some actions that would have people removing Whuffies from a person’s account: What do you think of these:

Throwing trash out the car
How a person treats a waiter/shop assistant/garbage man
Copying everyone in the company with an email that tells you off
Even worse, how a person uses bcc
How a person handles a bit of power
If a person contributes to society
The boss who passes off the brilliant colleagues work as their own
Moving the golf ball
Not sticking to the rules
Not obeying the rules of road
How a person treats his nearest and dearest (ie. Aged parents)

And so on….. add to the list if you like.

I am sure I don’t have to make a list of the items that will earn you Whuffies…… you know what they are. Go Earn Whuffies.