soccred

Minority View Warning!!

In a small rural village, when one person misbehaves, everyone knows and punishes the offender with collective actions. That serves as a major deterrent against bad behaviors. This mechanism is weakened by the size of community. Reputational information cannot always travel as far as a person could. The social credit system is a reimplementation of this mechanism from the old days.

It can be abused the same way. A village peon who angers the powerful become an outcast regardless of who is in the right.