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The US had the social credit system up and running for years before China did.

You can think of China's currently state of totalitarianism as a metastasis of what started in the US.

What's the US's social credit system? I mean the social part.

Credit score bureaus. A surprising array of services and accessibility is tied to the credit score.

Yes, but only your ability to repay loans is considered by those, not you ur social behavior or connections.

For now.

I know you're not the person I was responding to, but the point I was responding to was this one

> The US had the _social_ credit system up and running for years...