Summary: Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to know if the strangers you meet in the course of your day are trustworthy or not? The Chinese government recently enacted a "social credit" system that scores all their people according to how they behave. They get demerits for some actions and credits for others. We'd like to think we're above such invasive programs, but we have the same things -- they're just run by Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
