The funniest part of the ‘social credit score’ bullshit is we absolutely have it here in the United States. It’s called your credit fucking score. So many aspects of life are gatekept by access to money which, in the current economy, means access to debt, which is controlled by: your credit score. And it can absolutely negatively impact your life. And not just prejudices from private citizens.
You try driving a beat up clunker of a car through nice neighborhoods and see how long until a cop shows up to ask what you’re doing there. That’s a state actor. You try sending your kids to a good school when you can’t get a loan to live in a house in a good school district. That’s municipal government. You try renting an apartment without a fucking pay stub. God. Damn. We live in a society governed by money. Having access to money is a social metric aka a “sCoRe” you fucking barbells.
I’m also 99% sure credit is tied to your family just from anecdotal evidence. Both me and my friend signed up for credit cards the same day at the age of 18.
He could only get a “secured” credit card with a $150 limit, while I had an insane limit for a kid making minimum wage.
Of course his parents filed for bankruptcy years before that, but it does make me wonder.
My mom took out my first credit card as a joint family account, so I not only had her positive credit, I could make purchases and she could immediately repay them. For example, sometimes I’d buy our groceries or pay the electric bill. That way, I was building up credit without actually doing anything.
It absolutely does tie in to your family. And where you live. And a host of other factors outside your control. And not just passively like that. A shitty parent can fuck up your life by doing fraud in your name or vice versa. And now you’re stained by it and it can haunt you like a ghost for years.
In Europe there is tons of private credit info systems, white lists etc. which overlaps or don’t and works pretty randomly for example if someone do some scam on your name you could get permanently blacklisted or not, depend if you get reported and you might get to clear your name or not.
It’s amazing seeing normies with profiles full of cat photos comment about how they are realizing how misinformed they are on China.
Reminds me of this quote:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” -Mark Twain
Nice, thx for that. Made a meme of it here: https://lemmy.ml/post/24890041
Exactly, and the beauty of social media is that it’s a lot cheaper than travel making it possible for millions of people to get exposure to other cultures for free.
I know many people who are infatuated with travel and rush around the globe visiting places two weeks at a time. If you really want to understand a place stay there a minimum of six months, otherwise you will just be getting the Readers Digest version. I have seen hoards of travelers descend on a location at one time and all that they do is change the character of the place by their presence. This is especially true for cruise ships. Also all of this excessive travel has a huge carbon footprint.
I think it comes down to “exposure” to different people and cultures. If you only go places that cater exclusively to tourists, or you never leave the resort or whatever, then you aren’t really getting that exposure. At the same time, you can have some profound realizations in very little time-- I mean basic shit like “oh wow these people are just want to live their lives like everybody else!”
Honestly really wholesome to see, which means the US will step in any second to stop this.
Step away from the lathe. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/15/tech/trump-tiktok-ban/index.html
