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1 “Be care­ful not to prac­tice your right­eous­ness in front of oth­ers to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trum­pets, as the hyp­ocrites do in the syn­a­gogues and on the streets, to be hon­ored by oth­ers. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

4 so that your giv­ing may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

– Matthew 6:1 – 4

But, then, there are other schools of thought on this matter.

New York entre­pre­neur and Demo­c­ra­tic 2020 [POTUS] can­di­date Andrew Yang wants to imple­ment a sys­tem in which a government-​run mobile app rewards Amer­i­cans with “dig­i­tal social cred­its” (DSCs) for good behavior.

Amer­i­cans would receive DSCs under Yang’s sys­tem for things such as “par­tic­i­pat­ing in a town fair,” “fix­ing a neighbor’s appli­ance” or “tutor­ing a stu­dent,” his pres­i­den­tial cam­paign web­site explains.

“As indi­vid­u­als rack up DSCs, they would have both a per­ma­nent bal­ance they’ve earned over their life­time and a cur­rent bal­ance. They could cash the points in for expe­ri­ences, pur­chases with par­tic­i­pat­ing ven­dors, sup­port for causes, and trans­fer points to oth­ers for spe­cial occa­sions,” Yang states on his website.

“As their per­ma­nent bal­ance gets higher, they might qual­ify for var­i­ous perks like throw­ing a pitch at a local ball­game, an audi­ence with their local Con­gressper­son or meet­ing their state’s most civic-​minded ath­lete or celebrity.”

What could go wrong?

Yang’s social credit plan bears some sim­i­lar­i­ties to the social credit sys­tem imple­mented by China’s author­i­tar­ian government.

Every cit­i­zen in China is assigned a social credit score that deter­mines whether they can buy plane or train tick­ets.

Unlike the Chi­nese sys­tem, Yang’s plan does not include using dig­i­tal social credit for puni­tive mea­sures.

Empha­sis mine. Such an app prob­a­bly wouldn’t have the abil­ity to dish out the type of pun­ish­ment that the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment does. How­ever, wouldn’t it be inter­est­ing for such an app to con­tain a sham­ing mea­sure for “bad behav­ior” — eat­ing at Chick-​Fil-​A or sup­port­ing a pro-​life orga­ni­za­tion, for examples?

Bad behav­ior could earn the offender a shame-​swarm on Twit­ter or, per­haps, a visit from that chap­ter of ANTIFA which last seen pay­ing call at Tucker Carlson’s house.

Surely, such a fea­ture bug would never be built into this app. Surely not. (Insert side-​eye here.)

Leave it to a Demo­c­rat politi­cian to creep us all out. And, unlike Representative-​elect Alexan­dra Ocasio-​Cortez, this one appears to have more than a few IQ points. Even creepier.

Juli­ette Akinyi Ochieng has been blog­ging since 2003 as baldilocks. Her older blog is here. She pub­lished her first novel, Tale of the Tigers: Love is Not a Game in 2012. Fol­low her on Face­book, Twit­ter, and Gab.

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1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

— Matthew 6:1-4

But, then, there are other schools of thought on this matter.

New York entrepreneur and Democratic 2020 [POTUS] candidate Andrew Yang wants to implement a system in which a government-run mobile app rewards Americans with “digital social credits” (DSCs) for good behavior.

Americans would receive DSCs under Yang’s system for things such as “participating in a town fair,” “fixing a neighbor’s appliance” or “tutoring a student,” his presidential campaign website explains.

“As individuals rack up DSCs, they would have both a permanent balance they’ve earned over their lifetime and a current balance. They could cash the points in for experiences, purchases with participating vendors, support for causes, and transfer points to others for special occasions,” Yang states on his website.

“As their permanent balance gets higher, they might qualify for various perks like throwing a pitch at a local ballgame, an audience with their local Congressperson or meeting their state’s most civic-minded athlete or celebrity.”

What could go wrong?

Yang’s social credit plan bears some similarities to the social credit system implemented by China’s authoritarian government.

Every citizen in China is assigned a social credit score that determines whether they can buy plane or train tickets.

Unlike the Chinese system, Yang’s plan does not include using digital social credit for punitive measures.

Emphasis mine. Such an app probably wouldn’t have the ability to dish out the type of punishment that the Chinese government does. However, wouldn’t it be interesting for such an app to contain a shaming measure for “bad behavior” — eating at Chick-Fil-A or supporting a pro-life organization, for examples?

Bad behavior could earn the offender a shame-swarm on Twitter or, perhaps, a visit from that chapter of ANTIFA which last seen paying call at Tucker Carlson’s house.

Surely, such a feature bug would never be built into this app. Surely not. (Insert side-eye here.)

Leave it to a Democrat politician to creep us all out. And, unlike Representative-elect Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, this one appears to have more than a few IQ points. Even creepier.

Juliette Akinyi Ochieng has been blogging since 2003 as baldilocks. Her older blog is here.  She published her first novel, Tale of the Tigers: Love is Not a Game in 2012. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Gab.

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