• TerribleHands [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 days ago

      Hope you don’t mind me copy-pasting my other reply:

      Credit scores aren’t real actually but Chinese surveillance apparatus is massive and all-encompassing - I’m thinking specifically centralized CCTV and to a lesser extent government/police access to private social media. It does create a very safe and high-trust society because people know that wrongdoers are inevitably going to get caught.

      Wouldn’t trust American billionaires to implement a similar system but China proves that the theory at least works.

      • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 days ago

        hmm…i guess i’d have to take your word for it because i don’t know how things operate in China, but i do agree that the system here will never be to the benefit of society as a whole