Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
by lmm on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:35PM
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A company's interests are superficially different from a government's - they don't care about which party is in power, sure. But they have much the same interests at a deeper level of: keeping existing power structures in place, not letting weirdos mess everything up.
Re:Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
by Lionsion on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:37PM
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> A company's interests are superficially different from a government's - they don't care about which party is in power, sure. But they have much the same interests at a deeper level of: keeping existing power structures in place, not letting weirdos mess everything up.
You're reaching too far for an equivalence. Yes they have "deeper," more esoteric interests, but having them limited to those rather than supporting a party-regime is a far better situation.
Private company credit scores are better than government social credit scores, even though they're not totally neutral in idealistic way. The difference is big enough for them to be entirely different animals.
A lot, actually. It might help you to understand if you realize it's not really about the loan. It's about the political control that such opaque denials can be used to implement. A private company, especially a large public one, has a lot fewer incentives for exerting political control over its customers than an authoritarian government over its people. The private company actually has a lot of incentives for not doing so, since that kind of thing can alienate customers.