So, why did you get such a difficult name to pronounce such as AER? Why not REA or RAE?

In addition, if we take the Genesis Fractal or the Eden-Fractal as evidence. It's pretty simple to make predictions of the average level any given person will get. Also, predicting the group of people who will get the most respect is fairly easy: They are almost always the same. If, aside from the big respect they are getting, those people receive financing from BPs, then an unparalleled plutocracy could be being promoted. Add to that current flaws in the Fractally protocol that allow for multiple dipping of respect by teams and you would end with a ultra steep Pareto distribution of wealth.

So, I think the idea has promise. But before dedicating painful hours of coding to it, a lot of refinement and tuning its protocol needs to be done.

For example, in order to make things more fun, it would be interesting to make people "stake" not for actual ranking, but for some other indicators of performance and work: change in current weekly ranking as compared to personal average, level of attendance and the event of switching or disintegrating teams are some ideas the come off the top of my head.

Similar bets could be done, much more interestingly, on teams performance rather than individuals. Of course, this is provided that team compensation is fixed.

I didn't get in this document how off chain infrastructure providers would pay their bills? Only receiving AERs doesn't look too attractive to someone who has to pay servers and employees in dollars.