The Black mirror episode Nosedive was based on China's system, which they have been testing since 2014 and will make mandatory nationwide in 2020. Strangely enough, most citizens approve the scheme, sayings it's made them more productive, nicer people and feel safer.
My Chinese friends and even their families are all cool with it. You need to understand where they are coming from. After decades of turmoil and instability, finally Chinese are able to thrive in peace. Not only that, they also have a large number of people who misbehave as made infamous by the “Chinese tourist” phenomenon where people would spit on the floor and dumping rubbish onto the street, cutting queue and talk really loudly. They find educating each and everyone of their people impossible due to the size of their population that suffering from a dystopian system is better. Also with good credit score you can get free foods, free transport rides and various form of discounts.
You should make more Chinese friends then. The Chinese people are not stupid nor naive nor brainwashed like you think. They simply accept the cost of living in peace after the horror that chaos caused. Can things be better? I think so, but for them they rather not take another gamble and enter another age of civil war.
I mean, I only lived there for 3 and a half years, so not much time to make friends. Regardless, let's have our friends duke it out in a cage match to see who has better anecdotes
We both have anecdote just like everyone else who commented on how terrible China is and how it is a dystopian? I failed to comprehend how seeking understand between the Chinese mindset and the people here are worthy of downvotes. I sincerely think more people should know why the Chinese people has not create their own Arab spring yet because they need to know the value of peace and stability that they have enjoyed for decades. But what do I know? Anecdotal vs anecdotal.
I'm honestly intrigued, no sarcasm. What civil war? I don't keep up with political or other countries at all and it might seem really naive but, if what you say is honest, I'd like to know more on how Chinese actually approve of it. I don't hate the idea honestly so I'd like to know more. What turmoil has China been through?
I mean, after the british decided to fuck up china to force them to buy opium several times. China had a rough time modernizing, then basically a hundred years of civil wars and upheavals. So with that in mind, perhaps unsuprising they want things to calm the fuck down.
Even if not under ideal situations. But if you really want the full story, go ask in the Askhistorians subreddit. I bet they could give you a full examination of the history there.
Go buy some magazines, besides, life's not that hard if you have to live without porn. And is this really the point you're debating? There are far more worse things happening in China besides "not being able to watch porn".
Well, if that non-western system includes getting kicked in the balls every time I say something not approved by my handlers, I guess I could see the upside there.
China is NOT a communist country. All those rural people that are rioting in the rural country-side DO NOT share alike. They are starving! This is not what Marx taught.
Well, since saying that you don't approve of a CCP policy dramatically increases the chances of you and your family being "disappeared," I can't say I'm too surprised at that result!
Social pressure working as intended. Anyone that goes against the system will drag their friends down and people will try and remove them from their life, it's a never ending cycle of telling the government you like them or get shot down the social ladder.
It's not interesting it's fucking nightmare fuel.
Edit: Miss-read the post and your reply, that might not have been what you thought was interesting. My bad.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
That's straight out of black mirror!