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I’ll give you a different example, the W3C DID and Verifiable Claims WG have been developing a certificate scheme, which enables users to prove they have a degree, have a job, etc. Should users ever be allowed to prove their employment or degree status so easily? No, the W3C’s work is obviously unethical:
We know employers prefer hiring employees who already have a job elsewhere, and
some prefer hiring from specific universities, so it’ll simplify life for user
A when applying for a job if she can prove she already has a job, and has a
degree from say a university, so many employers would simply restrict their
application procedures to easily provable clearly strong criteria. It’s
obvious this creates negative social outcomes due to discrimination against
good people who take a year off from work to travel the world, work on their
own project, or self taught people.
There was a recent example where a U.S. employer only really liked degrees from
Oxford, Cambridge, or Bucharest:
https://twitter.com/jeffburdges/status/1355775414392729607 I’d consider ENS
and X to be far better schools than Oxford or Cambridge, but the employer never
considered them. And good luck explaining what a fachschule is to a
certificate verification algorithm that looks for specific universities.