What's Your Social Enslavement Score?

[Karl12]

Great film clip lol

[Anna]

An interesting topic though all over the place. Not sure if it's about Chinese social credit system, vaccines or general dangers of technology. Anyway, let's start with China. It's social credit system is a tool of control certainly, but let's give some credit to the poor Chinese. They've made some progress since the time of Mao. Sure, the government has more opportunities to control the citizens due to the rapid advancement of technology but it no longer slaughters people en masse. We don't hear regularly about the massacres in China and it's as much freedom as you can get by the Chinese standards.

Mandatory vaccines is nothing new. When there was smallpox epidemic in Poland, the government forced vaccines on everyone. The authorities didn't issue fancy vaccine passports. Instead, the police simply would forcefully drag an obstinate individual to the place where the vaccines were administered while he was screaming, kicking, spitting, cursing and what not to no avail.

My point is that technology doesn't really make governments more oppressive. It can make the violence more sophisticated but the history shows that the authoritarian regimes can do well without it.

[Maxmars]

I think sometimes it's good to remember that humans often live in two different worlds... the real world of natural things... and the human-made world of contrivance.

Technology is something that is essentially a tool.  
The tech is never the true culprit... it's only what humans do with technology in their world that marks 'use for exploitation and control.'

The social score idea is a somewhat predictable development popularized and set into reality by people of two types...

1) Those who follow the path of technocracy as governance, 
2) And those who want to get away with something otherwise out of their reach without enforced monitoring and mandates.

[sahgwa]

I was at a Christmas party for my work and it was a mystery dinner theatre thing.
Besides the live actors who came and acted out and talked to us, the clues were only accessible with QR codes. I don't feel like using my phone at dinner or scanning shit, so when time came to review it I said 'I don't appreciate being made to use QR codes, not everyone has or wants to use their phone.'