China 'social credit': Beijing sets up huge system
This gets scary, and scarier. China, IMHO, can safely be called a Fascist system now, they have the dicatatorship, government controlled media and economy, finance, and yet manage to be a mashed up measure of this and that. Unlike previous CXommunist and Socialists nations, they seem to have found other ways to stealk everything, and still allow the poor something. I wonder how many of the peasants actually give a damn about their social credit score, when digging in the rice paddies...
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A large customer's scoring system might matter because vendors want to be on their approved vendor list. The financial industry has managed to have their customers concerned about being on the industry's approved customers list. It's backwards for vendors to score their customers, but they if can pull off a "negative sell" where their customers actually see it as a privilege to buy a product, that's a marketing achievement. It's not immoral if they're not lying or using force. Gov'ts do lie and use force. That's the whole problem. If a gov't can pull of a Songbun-type system that citizens don't see through, it's just one more propaganda too to justify using force on its citizens.
Reminds me of another empire.