News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that. Parent comment

[dead]
Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by tokioyoyo on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @09:13AM (#45115351)
They’re right about 1 and 3, but not 2. Life has gotten much better in a good chunk of the world, that the opportunity loss for not moving to US is getting smaller. You can easily see it by immigration application numbers by country.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by lurk2 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @09:59AM (#45115910)
> You can easily see it by immigration application numbers by country.

Where are you getting this information? Visa issuance more than doubled between 2020 and 2024.

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Annual...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by tastyfreeze on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @11:52AM (#45117207)
Visa issuance doubling and having less applications from improving countries can both be true. I think you want issuance by place of birth to make the comparison OP is pointing out.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that by lurk2 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @03:49PM (#45119748)
> I think you want issuance by place of birth to make the comparison OP is pointing out.

I’m not seeing a year to year comparison on the page you linked. It’s calculable from the monthly figures, but I’ll wait and see if the GP responds with his own source.

[ Parent | on HN ]