Wouldn't be good for protestors. Wouldn't be good for anarchists. Wouldn't be good for people using someone else's ID for transit. If you're on this site, chances are you wouldn't be getting tax breaks for community service; you'd be getting blacklisted from trains for jaywalking or missing a dinner reservation. Like fuck, I'd consider myself a Tankie, but I don't see an upside remotely worth the cost of this.
Not to mention the surveillance required to make social credit viable. 'Actual credit in America is even worse!' is a bullshit argument too.
The government and business sector in America does have these tools.
The US government & corporate/tech sector in America are the ones who designed the facial recognition, AI & big data analysis infrastructure in PRC.
We are behind the drive to do this in China. Their industrial output efficiency is our 1st world meal ticket
Yeah, it's not nearly that bad here. I only need a 600+ credit score to qualify for an apartment in my area. They don't tell me how it's calculated so it's totally cool. I'd rather have a private company rating me and determining if I'm worthy of a 4% interest loan or a 40% interest loan.
the invisible hand does work in mysterious ways 🙏