How could an economic system implementing these ideas look like? First the signaling reward must be uncoupled from anything directly economically valuable. Examples of such constructs can be found in the internet domain: reputation scores badges or “likes” are all numeric representations of some personal quality presented in a psychologically effective form. In our hypothetical “merit” economy the signaling reward is also a number with its value equal to the magnitude of income a worker would earn in the capitalist system. With the signaling component separated from the economic value the later can be set to be distributed virtually equally — the way most people would prefer — without compromising worker motivation. Combined with other rules described elsewhere an economic system emerges identical to capitalism in the way the behaviorally salient self-signaling component is determined but one that virtually eliminates the problem of economic inequality.