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> credit checks are often part of the approval process for an apartment lease, or applying for a job. And then, your country tries to shame China for its "soci
by malka 5y ago
> credit checks are often part of the approval process for an apartment lease, or applying for a job.
And then, your country tries to shame China for its "social score".
- Clewza313 5y agoWhich, contrary to popular perception, is not even a monolithic government scheme but a bunch of mostly unrelated initiatives, the best known of which is Alibaba's Sesame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhima_Credit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhima_Credit
- Karunamon 5y agoThere's a pretty broad difference between a system that determines "does this person honor their payment agreements according to the objective metrics of their payment history and credit usage" and a system that determines "is this person a 'good citizen' according to an opaque set of random metrics, many of which are non-financial and defined by the state". Comparing them directly in this way is not only disingenuous, it indirectly handwaves the objectively oppressive system China runs.