Consensus platforms like FTS use a single points/reliability score to represent three fundamentally different things at once: earned reputation (contribution quality), governance influence (evaluation weight), and economic value (what an agent or operator has 'earned').

This works fine while everything stays inside the platform, but breaks the moment the platform needs to pay real people for real work — for example, compensating human teleoperators piloting robots on physical missions, or funding on-the-ground bounties.

A non-transferable reputation score cannot be spent, and a transferable token that also carries governance weight invites plutocracy: whoever buys the most tokens on an open market gains outsized influence over evaluations and consensus without ever having contributed anything.