From Uber ratings to credit scores, the world has increasingly grown comfortable with the idea of assigning grades to human character. Behavioral quantification has become ever more fine-tuned, with online services using big data to predict recommendations and personalise the upsell.
Last year, China’s State Council (cabinet) released aplanning outline for the “Construction of a Social Credit System,” the main objective of which is to establish “the fundamental laws, regulations and standard systems for social credit” by 2020, a vague term that is meant to encompass an individual’s personal, professional and financial history.
The point of the credit score is to judge your character, as well as your potential for contribution to society as a whole.