Phone Has Social Credit. We Just Lie About It
Your Phone Already Has Social Credit. We Just Lie About It. Photo by Avery Evans on UnsplashYour credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior.Social credit, in its original economic definition, means distributing industry profits to consumers to increase purchasing power. But the term has evolved far beyond economics. Today, it describes any kind of metric that tracks individual behavior, assigns scores based on that behavior, and uses those scores to determine access to services, opportunities, or social standing.Sounds dystopian, doesn’t it? But guess what?…
