>The scores are voluntary For now. >people’s scores are not impacted at all by data from the private sector. Totalitarian governments operate on the ideology

>The scores are voluntary For now. >people’s scores are not impacted at all by data from the private sector. Totalitarian governments operate on the ideology that the state is total - there is no such thing as life outside the state. Of course they don't care about the private sector, because the notion of private life (both in China and elsewhere) is on its way to extermination. >What makes up ‘positive credit’ is the most subjective This is the fatal flaw. The government has no choice but to be the arbiter of truth - they must turn arbitrary categories into measurements of individuals' values to society. It will never be otherwise and that's why social credit is doomed.