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It is an interesting experiment but if it is really a tool for social change then the ability to correct one's score can't really rely entirely on things where
by ChuckMcM 8y ago
It is an interesting experiment but if it is really a tool for social change then the ability to correct one's score can't really rely entirely on things where the individual has no control.
In the US getting a felony on your record is perhaps the biggest limiter to your future success that you can do. There are so many things stacked against you at that point. In California there is at least a process for getting some felonies expunged, which allows you to get back on to the playing field of life without that weight dragging you down.
The article seems to make the case that the only way the victim could get their status restored was to come up with money somehow to repay debts.
- gowld 8y agoIt's China. It's a tool for social control and keeping the Communist Party billionaires in power.
- chessturk 8y ago> the Communist Party billionaires It's so Orwellian. All of it.
- Teknoman117 8y agoThe joke goes - When the rest of the world took Orwell's 1984 as a warning, China used it as a model. However, that joke really isn't true, because all the countries took it as a model, it's just that China seems to be somewhat proud of that fact, whereas the rest tried to do it covertly.