• init@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Wholeheartedly agree. And then we go around panicking about the authoritarian social credit shit China has. Mfer we’ve have social credit for decades

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        In my state all the lenders came to the legislature several years back and make a big push to try and come up with a new type of credit score that was primarily based on driving history. Apparently, driving history is like a way more accurate predictor of your credit worthiness than your financial history. So I guess my point is that they will scrape data anyway then can get it and use it to judge how much you have to pay to access money.

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        9 months ago

        Respectfully, that is apples to oranges. You are unable to function as a regular person in China with bad social credit. Here you can’t get loans and sometimes your employer sees.

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      9 months ago

      It’s a far less bad scam than the previous version of be a white guy that’s friends with the local bank.