Comment by Fricken
5 years ago
It's the number associated with my bank account that dictates how much I can travel, where I can live, what kind of education I can get, and even whether I can eat. This is pervasive throughout modern civilization. China's social credit system is trivial in comparison.
While that might sound deep, that's more a measure of others' unwillingness to do things for you for free.
The charity of others isn't enough to fly you around the world and give you beachfront property and iPhone. They'll want something in return so long as they have other aspirations beyond serving you.
It's not deep at all, I feel like I'm being way too obvious pointing out that all societies have systems in place for engineering the behavior of of it's members.