Its intended purpose has little to do with monitoring.

This starts Orwellian and end Huxleyan, in that a generation or two in, the majority of people's perception will be altered. They have no access to dissenting thought and their critical thinking skills are as dull as a doorknob.

This is about thought control.

So many methods where tryied, but when the great cycle of strife comes back with force, i sincerely doubt that 'social' credits will prevent hunger riots. Other people cant judge you if you eat them first.

Yea the number of unpublicized civil disobedience (protest, whatever) in China is pretty staggering. China media doesn't pick up on it for obvious reasons, Western media I guess is only interested when they can fit it into their narrative (e.g. 6/4), which isn't the case for relatively uninteresting protest at random factory or whatever. I mean you see some on Western news, but it's like 10 strikes/protests a day on average, and we don't see the scale of it here.

When you see that, it frames a lot of the party's actions and you see why (maybe you don't agree with it still, whatever). Basically scared shitless of a mass uprising, and trying to keep enough of the fires out, or at least mildly smoldering instead of rating.