Re:China's Dystopian Social Credit System
by mercer on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:26PM
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I consider myself rather collectivist, but I don't love it.
If the entity 'taking care' consists, ultimately, of a small group of elites, this really just boils down to a few individualists controlling everyone else. That's far from collectivist!
I'm open to the idea that this is not currently the case, but it wouldn't take much for it to be so. That's why, as a collectivist, I am inclined to be more on the 'hate' than 'love' side.
If the entity 'taking care' consists, ultimately, of a small group of elites, this really just boils down to a few individualists controlling everyone else. That's far from collectivist!
I'm open to the idea that this is not currently the case, but it wouldn't take much for it to be so. That's why, as a collectivist, I am inclined to be more on the 'hate' than 'love' side.