05-27-2024, 04:13 PM
It all depends on what they’re going to care about.
Said differently, are you a “threat” to the administration or not? Are you a violent threat? Are you not transparent? Do you have a criminal history? Are you employed or a burden on the state? Are at least becoming “green”? What clubs are you part of? Do you post frequently on mainstream social media? Do you use digital payments? Do you buy questionable items? Are you a religious extremist? Do you engage in significant hate-speech based on race/gender/orientation? Are you philanthropic? Do you donate to political causes?
There’s a lot there that I suspect could form your score.
The only issue with this system is the controlling of political expression and thought - which is the obvious big issue IMO. There are lots of other aspects of this that in a way might actually benefit people and particularly in a society where machines have been taking jobs. What’s the currency if you have 1.2bn people but only need 300 million workers? The government has to have a means of compensating people and “social credit” may have a lot more to do with how many “credits” people get (aka money) than their score in the system.
The more I think about it - that’s what is scary.
If the US has ~400mm people now (less but let’s say about that) and we suddenly only need 80 million workers… how do you compensate the rest? You compensate them by being positive contributors to society and they get “credits” for toeing the line. The classes will be stratified by “employed” and then the social score. The implications of this being you probably can’t get a job with a low social score - meaning criminal history or other issues. Employers must love this because the government does the vetting of employees for them. No liability.
The whole social credit thing kind of just getting in front of a problem my generation will probability inherit - many more people than needed workers. Have to keep the masses pacified - which is probably the role the Metaverse is a part of filling.
Now I’m rambling. Interesting topic.
Said differently, are you a “threat” to the administration or not? Are you a violent threat? Are you not transparent? Do you have a criminal history? Are you employed or a burden on the state? Are at least becoming “green”? What clubs are you part of? Do you post frequently on mainstream social media? Do you use digital payments? Do you buy questionable items? Are you a religious extremist? Do you engage in significant hate-speech based on race/gender/orientation? Are you philanthropic? Do you donate to political causes?
There’s a lot there that I suspect could form your score.
The only issue with this system is the controlling of political expression and thought - which is the obvious big issue IMO. There are lots of other aspects of this that in a way might actually benefit people and particularly in a society where machines have been taking jobs. What’s the currency if you have 1.2bn people but only need 300 million workers? The government has to have a means of compensating people and “social credit” may have a lot more to do with how many “credits” people get (aka money) than their score in the system.
The more I think about it - that’s what is scary.
If the US has ~400mm people now (less but let’s say about that) and we suddenly only need 80 million workers… how do you compensate the rest? You compensate them by being positive contributors to society and they get “credits” for toeing the line. The classes will be stratified by “employed” and then the social score. The implications of this being you probably can’t get a job with a low social score - meaning criminal history or other issues. Employers must love this because the government does the vetting of employees for them. No liability.
The whole social credit thing kind of just getting in front of a problem my generation will probability inherit - many more people than needed workers. Have to keep the masses pacified - which is probably the role the Metaverse is a part of filling.
Now I’m rambling. Interesting topic.
