Musing For Today

With all this concern over the Chinese government having an online "Social Credit Score", where individuals who fall below a certain rating are barred from the essentials and spoils of society, such as:  the right to attain any kind of employment; riding public transit; being allowed in businesses, stores, and restaurants; being allowed to have a place to live or reside; entitlement to any kind of government benefits;  the right to socialize or freely associate with others

....it should be noted that all throughout history----long before the existence of any internet or sophisticated satellite systems, going all the way back to (and well before) medieval times where communication was strictly the printed page and word-of-mouth----social network systems of this sort have always been the norm in ALL societies.  They simply went by "reputation", "social class", "social status", "arrest and conviction records", "school records", "employment records", "community involvement", "character references" ........