I have heard that in China, a system is being adopted to record one's background and daily activities on one's smartphone to enhance one's creditworthiness.

The LINE company is also developing an app called "LINE Score".

The contents that are self-registered/automatically registered in this application are

- History (gender, age, etc.)

- Education and work history

- Financial strength (ability to pay)

- Credit (credit history including repayment history)

- Personal connections (social networking sites, clubs, volunteer work, etc.)

- Preferences (hobbies and behaviors in life)

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I see, from now on, we don't need to look for common sense, social norms, or ethics in philosophy or religion, but the computer will decide for us.

Well, this is easy.

- Volunteerism is not about mutual aid or good intentions, but simply about credit counting.

- The accumulation of credit counts will make it easier for you to go to school or find a job, which will give you an additional credit count bonus.

- Any act of defiance against the school or organization counts as a negative.

- The count is reset upon conviction of a criminal offense.

When I write this, I tend to think of it as 'the realization of a computerized society of personal control' in a single step, but such a way of thinking is so "shallow" nowadays that even science fiction movies cannot adopt it.

This also has the huge benefit of "quantifying personal values for individuals".

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For example, some people may focus on the fact that they are in debt, while others may focus on the fact that they are making good on their repayments.

There may even be people who judge too many connections as 'weathervanes'.

Some people may think that someone who has traveled the world is a more useful person than someone with a high school education.

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"I'll never give my daughter to a man who has the right to vote, but won't even vote"

I think there are quite a few parents who think that way.

This is why I think it's perfectly fine to take the stance of "I'm only going to vote to prepare for the future' world of credit counting.