The Social Credit System in China [video]
I'm probably the only person I know who believes that privacy is unsustainable and overrated, and that a social credit system is unavoidable and massively underrated.<p>I have never understood people's obsession with privacy, Orwell's 1984, etc. It always seemed motivated by selfishness and irrational fear.<p>For the longest time, I've been wondering what was wrong with me. Why don't other people share my preference for transparency and efficiency? Why is everyone trying to make things more difficult for people around them?<p>Then I discovered China. It seemed like WeChat and Sesame Credit were what I had been looking for all these years. How come don't we have these things in the west? Why are we so conservative and technophobe?<p>I quickly realized that WeChat and Sesame Credit were poor (centralized, authoritarian) implementations of great visions. It is now overwhelmingly clear to me  that we need a decentralized version of WeChat and Sesame Credit. This would be the greatest innovation since the invention of the Internet.<p>Yet, I can't seem to find anyone willing or capable to appreciate these ideas. What am I missing?