Re:College Rejection Threat Highlights Social Credit Blacklists
by ForHackernews on Saturday July 21, 2018 @04:19AM
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> - no private aircraft - what about rural doctors and farmers?
The day that a rural doctor or farmer is indicted for defrauding investors for hundreds of millions of dollars, that objection might make sense.
Re:College Rejection Threat Highlights Social Credit Blacklists
by Broken_Hippo on Saturday July 21, 2018 @06:24AM
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It isn't so out of the question for folks to cheat on their taxes and get caught for it. This happens at all levels of society. It doesn't have to be for much money, after all, just enough to help folks survive. With the US tax code as-is, it is actually pretty easy.
- no private aircraft - what about rural doctors and farmers?
- no high end credit card - so you want them to pay more (higher interest) to the banks, because... why?
- can't be a director - so do you just take their company from them? who do you give it to? how does that help repay debt?
- no golf - so if someone's a professional golfer/trainer you're stripping them of a job that would help repay the debt?
Almost all these ideas are like debtors prison - maybe feels good to kick the guilty, but does society benefit?