China bans 23M from buying travel tickets as part of 'social credit' system
It seems our institutions for societal problem solving have not changed much since the 19th century.  We have prisons, the courts, and money, glorious money: the universal and only solution to all problems.<p>China seems to be rearranging the rules and making things not only about money, but also behavior.<p>They deal with their ethnic violence problems through reeducation camps instead of war (e.g Chechnya) or simply giving up and trying to contain the problem( e.g &quot;no go zones&quot;).<p>They deal with their infrastructure problems by largely ignoring all legal opposition including property rights to development.<p>They deal with the boom bust cycle by printing money and strictly controlling bank behavior and severely punishing bad actors.<p>Now they are using social credit to control bad behavior without prisons.<p>It&#x27;s like they are trying to invent the next level of society, while our system thrives on growing and making industries out of its irresolvabe conflicts.