I cannot think of a single way in which this makes society better.
You're now going to have people financially - on top of emotionally - vested in their opinions which can only create further polarization. Societies need consensus, hard to see how you help achieve this when compromises become financial losses...
Also, it literally disincentivizes truth-seeking. Markets work based on anticipating what others will believe, not on discovering what's actually true. It's the meme stock phenomenon: those stocks don't rise because the company is valuable, they rise because enough people believe others will keep buying.
You'll have the same thing with opinions: people rewarded not for being right, but for anticipating what others will believe and incentivized - literally - to manipulate narratives. Truth becomes not only irrelevant, but in many cases will be actively fought against because it becomes a direct financial threat.
Lot of accounts that were having a go at Simone Biles for “quitting” @ the last Olympics were quiet on congratulating her for winning gold yesterday & instead publicly backed an Italian boxer that has quit in the middle of fights now on multiple occasions. Congrats on your growth
under the theocratic rule of the jedi tatooine slave children were forced to compete in podraces and kidnapped at will by jedi masters to serve as child soldiers in far-off wars. meanwhile since imperial rule began the literary rate in mos eisley alone has quadrupled
John Wick has killed 439 people for his dog and everyone loves him but Jordan Addison breaks the speed limit for his and he’s a monster and the season is over.