Thinking Progressive #14 - Designing An American Social Credit Score
Channel: Ron Rivers
Date: 2019-11-05

You may hear "social credit score" and think dystopia, but is there another way?  Learning from China's experiment we can imagine a better program for the American people.  An American social credit score could be a direct pathway to empower millions within the United States.


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SOURCES:
[1] The FOMO Is Real: How Social Media Increases Depression and Loneliness Healthline https://www.healthline.com/health-news/social-media-use-increases-depression-and-loneliness    

[2] Instagram Rich List 2019 Hopper HQ https://www.hopperhq.com/blog/instagram-rich-list/  

[3] Are Close Friends the Enemy? Online Social Networks, Self-Esteem, and Self-Control by Keith Wilcox & Andrew T. Stephen Columbia Business School, Oxford University 
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2155864
 
[4] Is social media bad for you? The evidence and the unknowns by Jessica Brown BBC http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns 

[5]  Most famous social network sites worldwide as of July 2019, ranked by number of active users (in millions) Statista https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/  

[6] Internet growth accelerates, but Facebook ad engagement tumbles by Simon Kemp We Are Social  https://wearesocial.com/blog/2018/07/internet-growth-accelerates-but-facebook-ad-engagement-tumbles  

[7] Inside Mark Zuckerberg's private meetings with conservative pundits By Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippman Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/14/facebook-zuckerberg-conservatives-private-meetings-046663 

[8] Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-2020) China Communist Party https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-social-credit-system-2014-2020/  

[9] The complicated truth about China's social credit system by Nicole Kobie Wired https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained  

[10] China has started ranking citizens with a creepy 'social credit' system — here's what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you by Alexandra Ma Business Insider  https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4#4-stopping-you-getting-the-best-jobs-4  

[11] https://www.ft.com/content/e5246526-8c2c-11e7-a352-e46f43c5825d  

[12] U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout By Drew DeSilver Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/21/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries/  

[13] How a Proressive White House Miht Handle the Amazon by Ron Rivers Medium https://medium.com/@ronrivers/how-a-progressive-white-house-might-handle-the-amazon-e972ea236cc3   

[14] Third of early deaths could be prevented by everyone giving up meat, Harvard says by Sarah Knapton The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/04/26/third-early-deaths-could-prevented-everyone-giving-meat-harvard/


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