Social Ranking System in China

[Rikafip]

Do you think this is a good system for managing people so that good people get more benefits at the expense of bad people.

I don't see how anyone could think that this is a good system. I mean tyranical government getting even more power, what could go wrong.

I think it's a horrible system all around, and I might be inclined to think "Who cares? This is China we're talking about, not the US" but China seems to be exerting its influence all around the world these days and shit like this might well spread to Europe, the states, and who knows where else.

United States has bunch of issues, but even with all that they are light years ahead of China and without them/you still being the only global superpower, world would be a much worse place to live. Here in Europe we don't even have to imagine it as people that lived behind iron curtain very well know how it was when USSR ran the show and how it would be for the rest of us.

[DrBeer]

It is more likely that this is not a mating system, but a system in order to:
1. Shift responsibility from the state to the citizens. Responsibility for the standard of living in the country, social norms, etc.
2. Additional mechanism of punishment and containment of the population. Let's just say - an attempt to distract from the real problems in the country and play on morality for immoral purposes.

[gaston castano]

Helping the poor and committing heroic act gets you some points based on that image. So this also means I could get a low social ranking even if I'm not doing anything illegal. if I only care about my source of living and pretty much ignore everything that's happening around me then no points for me huh? It looks like this is not a place for minding my own business. Voluntarism would be removed in this kind of environment since everyone is expecting some reward for their actions.

Praising the Government on social media are plus points too? hehehe.

helping other people is a good deed, even though some people do it to get attention or praise from others, at least they help other people who are in trouble is already a good start but if you keep doing it then when there is nothing to get then it will just disappeared.

[naikturun]

Such a system is bad because people will apply it to other things, for example, the rich to the poor, the powerful to the common people, the beautiful to the ugly.
all things would be compared and contrasted by that sort of thing, it would be terrible to continue doing that.

[xSkylarx]

This is like how to control the people, i know the outcome it good but you kind of controlling people and most of people dont have privacy on this because you have been monitored all over the world. There must be hidden agenda on this for sure but if we think about the outcome it is good as for sure people in their country wants to climb up in rankings, what i am imagining is how is the poor people can get scores mean how they can climb up

[Ucy]

Not really compatible with the way of life of True Christains. I believe they (Christains) will have to violate lots of their own laws that tend to discourage people from doing good works to be seen & praised/rewarded by people. Christain Holy Scripture basically frowned at working for rewards rather than for love.
I think the Christians will likely have more neutral scores in such society as they work for love rather than for reward, and they prefer not to be seen while doing charity/good works... Better still, they highly value anonymity during their works. Nevertheless, they are not condemned if people see them doing good works as long as their intention is not to be seen.
By the way, not a good idea to dish out rewards to people who do such works with wrong intentions, which is one of the reasons this kind of reward system is flawed and won't really make people good.


Maybe encourage anonymous contributions more and don't let people know you are rewarding and ranking them for their good contributions. They will propably only know by the privileges granted to them and improvement they experience in their lives.


The reward system should be unbais, only good contributions (or good works) should be rewarded with good rewards, should be fraud-proof or hard to cheat.

[Spaceman1000$]

The social Ranking system to me it's just not necessary I believe there are laws in the system that has appropriate punishment for the law breakers.
Bringing up a social Ranking system when there are existing laws tends to bothering the citizenry with too much policing and overbearing social structure, because from the article you can see millions of people that have in one way or the other offended this society Ranking system(that alone should be a negative feedback). We are humanes and as such we should be be living freely under the ambit of the law.