Meanwhile insurance scores in the US gather all sorts of opaque behavioral data via data brokers. And the IMF even thinks you're browser history should influence your credit score.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe, I don't live there. But a social score is absolutely insane.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago

China is having some of the same wages/productivity split problems that the us has and there’s a vein of thought that says it’s fixable with social incentive programs.

This isn’t 1984 evil authoritarian tankie shit, its liberal reform shit.

And as another reply to you mentioned, a lot of the “social” factors are reported to the big 3 credit reporting agencies through denials based on giant weird datasets anyway, so the “normal” credit score is a “social” credit score in disguise.