China's social credit system was developed decades after they had already established much lower crime rates than the US, and seems at best tangentially related

China's social credit system was developed decades after they had already established much lower crime rates than the US, and seems at best tangentially related. At the point that the social credit system was conceived (2000-ish?), China's crime rate was like 2-4x lower than the US's most recent lowest year. What they did have back then was a population rapidly getting richer (or at least pulling astounding numbers of people out of poverty). In the US we saw major shift in like 1975-ish when wage growth basically stopped, even though productivity continued to go way up.