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Re: China’s plan to give every citizen a social credit score

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Oct 13, 2015, 1:51 AM UTC

jqm wrote: post #50

TeMPOraL wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's good enough. It's better to have a stable and reasonable ruler that tries to do the Right Thing (i.e. optimize globally in the scale of country) than everyone trying to have it their - however smart or stupid - way.

Well I don't fully disagree, but then there are the "enlightened" rulers of ISIS trying to do the "right thing" for humanity...

Yeah, I'll grant you that. I guess that I dream of someone pulling off an enlightened semi-dictatorship based on liberal values...

Re: China’s plan to give every citizen a social credit score

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Post by monstruoso » Tue, Oct 13, 2015, 2:22 PM UTC

moron4hire wrote: post #25

To the extent that my understanding of European current events is aided by shared culture and a much better coverage of history, even including many more modern events, I find my near-complete lack of understanding of Chinese culture is a serious impediment to my understanding of articles like this. My university history classes basically ended at the Boxer Rebellion, with a brief interlude into using the Great Leap…

>For example: isn't China supposed to be Communist?

No. It is state capitalism. The communist label is used in the same manner as the democratic label of the democratic people's republic of korea.

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