LionofTepelenë
11th September 2016, 03:40
Recently I have come across the Sesame Credit system, which is a social credit system developed by Alibaba (China's Amazon) and Ant financial. The appearance of it makes it look similar to America's credit score for taxes and credit card payments, but it gets a whole lot more nefarious than that.
Essentially what it is gameified obedience to the Chinese state and their corporate counterparts. It will rate you according to the purchases you have made or what you have linked to on the internet. For example, if you bought Locally produced products or talked about how well China is you would increase in score. Meanwhile if you bought Japanese Manga or linked to China uncensored, your score would drop like a rock. But it isn't just that, if you are involved with someone with a low score that is made public, and there are benefits for people with high scores.
What I am getting at is that this is mass subjugation at its finest, turning despotic rule from fear to it becoming a game of who can obey the best. While it isn't mandatory for now, it will be in 2020, so that means around 1 billion people will have to be part of this system. This diverts agitation from the system to you fellow others, making you jealous of people who show off their score. The government doesn't need to oppress or show any force, it is social pressure that sets people on line.
Now I have talked to people about this, most of the responses have been "typical commies" from my more pro-American acquaintances. But I could see this also being adopted by governments and capitalist organizations other than China. Imagine the possibilities for this: Japan or Germany could offer more benefits to people who make more children to counter their lowering population, or the United States could offer benefits to people who served in a certain job or years in the military.
What are your opinions on this?
Essentially what it is gameified obedience to the Chinese state and their corporate counterparts. It will rate you according to the purchases you have made or what you have linked to on the internet. For example, if you bought Locally produced products or talked about how well China is you would increase in score. Meanwhile if you bought Japanese Manga or linked to China uncensored, your score would drop like a rock. But it isn't just that, if you are involved with someone with a low score that is made public, and there are benefits for people with high scores.
What I am getting at is that this is mass subjugation at its finest, turning despotic rule from fear to it becoming a game of who can obey the best. While it isn't mandatory for now, it will be in 2020, so that means around 1 billion people will have to be part of this system. This diverts agitation from the system to you fellow others, making you jealous of people who show off their score. The government doesn't need to oppress or show any force, it is social pressure that sets people on line.
Now I have talked to people about this, most of the responses have been "typical commies" from my more pro-American acquaintances. But I could see this also being adopted by governments and capitalist organizations other than China. Imagine the possibilities for this: Japan or Germany could offer more benefits to people who make more children to counter their lowering population, or the United States could offer benefits to people who served in a certain job or years in the military.
What are your opinions on this?