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  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    People are people no matter where they live, which also means you can’t trust any government anywhere. Propaganda is powerful.

    The idea of a social credit score has always been hilarious to me, like yo bros we have credit scores over here and they legitimately fuck us over since you need good credit to do alot of things like renting a place to live.

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        1 year ago

        The comparison is wild because financial credit score is much worse. Imagine you are a model citizen but big corp keeps you poor so youre denied basic human needs. On the other hand you are a murderer but as long as you have the moneyz you can do whatever you want.

        Of course, social credit score can be misused to push agendas and manipulate the whole popularity if the wrong people implement it. Not trying to defend it in any way, it is a terrible idea. But financial credit score is suppression of the poor by design.

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          1 year ago

          Most people on lemmy should be more afraid of a social credit system. Get arrested at food not bombs? That’s a penalty. Get raided at a gay bar? That’s a ding. Protest against deng? Ding. (Couldn’t help myself).

          Financial credit score is more of a “we don’t give half a fuck what you do so long as you’re good with money”

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            1 year ago

            A corporate credit system that is defacto standard, is nothing short of a nightmare and an insult to a nation. Any credit system.

            Lol even most western countries have this, it’s called regulation and prosecuting financial corruption.

            The US used to do it back in the 1950s too, but now it’s considered authoritarian. Finance-capital just pretty much hand-picks the politicians nowadays, for example, citibank hand-picked Obama’s cabinet.