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[–] flipht@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This. The US has been doing social credit for decades. We just call it regular credit because we don't care about your antisocial personality tendencies as long as you can keep a job and spend the money you earn. Just a question of priorities.

Social credit is a terrible system. But we have similar stuff - job references, landlords checking your history, etc. The US often has the things we deride others for - we just obfuscat and abstract it. Bread lines -> EBT, etc.