Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior.
Social credit, in its original economic definition, means
Legit, thanks for this. Sometimes the coolness of articles like this revolve around re-framing an already known part of life (cookies and data usage).