One Chinese city has recently launched a smartphone map that displays the location and identity of anyone within 500 meters who’s landed on a government creditworthiness blacklist.
It’s chilling, dystopian — and likely to be quite popular https://bloom.bg/2DsxkJD via @bopinion
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Also the Chinese absolutely love cheating, so Chicom is forced to do this to achieve even minimal corruption control.
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Low trust + high state capacity = Big Brother Low trust + low state capacity = anarchy Former preferable to latter, but still better to be in a high trust society (taking the necessary steps to stay that way).
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Yes and no
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Apparently where internal security is solved problem, a communist state has no qualms enacting downright reactionary policies, to the absolute horror of baizuo everywhere
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That is an interesting thought
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