Social Credit
Social Credit, sometimes shortened to SoCred, is an economical system that advocates for social control of credit, a national dividend, and other policies that aim to raise consumer's purchasing power and decentralize economic power.
Variants
Unfree social credit.
In this system, the predominance of authoritarianism and dictatorship is used, and social credit is used as a means of encouragement and punishment.
Foundations and Beliefs
Purpose of the Economy and Waste
SoCred believes that the purpose of an economy is to provide goods and services that increase personal well-being, however not every good serves this purpose, these goods are waste. This waste hurts the consumer, since the price of products is increased because of it, hurting his purchasing power.
Production and Cultural Inheritance
For them, there are four factors in production. Land, labor, capital, and Cultural Inheritance, with the last one having the most importance. Cultural Inheritance is the knowledge, process, and techniques that are developed by past civilizations. These ideas make it so that we don't need to reinvent the wheel, making production easier and more valuable
Black Mirror (SPOILERS!)
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Lacey Pound lives in a world where people can give each other grades from 1 to 5 in real life. The rental period is running out, and Lacey is trying to move into the prestigious Pelican Bay complex, although her brother is against it. To be able to settle in this complex, Lacey must either pay a large rent, or get a discount by reaching a rating of 4.5 or higher.
Naomi, Lacey's childhood friend, asks her to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. Naomi has a rating of 4.8, is friends with people of the "upper class" and lives on a private island. Lacey hopes that when she gives her girlfriend's speech, the wedding guests will appreciate her well and she will get the necessary rating of 4.5. She's on her way to the airport, but the flight has been canceled. Due to an argument with Ryan and several random conflicts with strangers, her rating drops below 4.2, so she is not allowed to buy a ticket on another plane. Lacey throws a tantrum at the airport, and security assigns her a 24-hour punishment, which temporarily reduces her rating to 3.1 and doubles all new negative ratings.
Lacey's low rating leads to the fact that the only way out for her is to rent an old car and drive 9 hours to Naomi's wedding. When the rented electric car runs low, she can't charge it because it's so old that there are no adapters for it anymore. Lacey tries to hitchhike, but people drive by, seeing her low rating. In the end, she is picked up by trucker Susan with a rating of 1.4, who admits that she was also obsessed with ratings before her husband died of cancer because he was not given an experimental course of treatment, but was given to a patient with a rating of 4.4. Her husband had a rating of 4.3.
Naomi calls Lacey and says she doesn't want to see her at the wedding anymore, because her rating has dropped to 2.6. Enraged, Lacey decides to get to the wedding at all costs, illegally invades the island and unexpectedly appears at the party. Lacey hurriedly makes her speech and starts threatening Paul, Naomi's husband, with a knife. Lacey is arrested, the implanted ratings app is removed from her and she is imprisoned. In the cell, she begins to quarrel with another prisoner, and their mutual anger turns into mutual pleasure, because they begin to realize that now they can calmly swear and not be afraid of anything.
Personality
He hates being confused for 
Dengism or 
Xi Jinping Thought, and will be quick to correct anyone who makes this confusion, often going on a long-winded rant on how his ideology is perhaps the exact opposite of Chinese social credit. He believes that social credit is useful and necessary for people.
How to Draw
- Draw a ball.
- Color the ball in very dark, de-saturated green-cyan.
- Add two vertical, parallel white lines on the left side in white.
- Draw two smaller, diagonal lines on the lines, both of them opposite on each side on the top of the lines.
- Add the eyes
You're done!
| Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green-Cyan | #315e4e | 49, 94, 78 | |
| White | #FFFFFF | 255, 255, 255 | |
Relationships
Friends
Longism - Likes wealth distribution and increasing consumer purchasing power. Based.
Lawsonomy - Anti-bank gang!
Distributism - Great friend from the start. He helped influence a lot of the old social credit parties.
Ricardian Socialism - Good influence on my ideas.
Frenemies
Social Libertarianism - Likes universal income but I'm not sure if I like most of your other policies.
Keynesian School - Doesn't think I'm completely insane.
Pol Potism - Another anti-bank ideology but otherwise you are a maniac.
Reactionary Socialism - You have quite a few ideas I can agree with but you take them too far.
Bankers
Financialism - I hate you for forcing the consumers to go into debt.
Zionism - "What is interesting about ["The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"], is the fidelity with which the methods by which such enslavement might be brought about can be seen reflected in the facts of everyday experience."
Dengism - You've ruined the great name of social credit! Now everyone confuses my ideology with you!
Right-Wing Populism - Bastard who hijacked my party.
Satirism - For the love of god, I'm not that Social Credit!
PCM - You too, the thing above.
Gallery
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Further Information
Literature
- Social Credit by C. H. Douglas
- Credit-power and democracy by C. H. Douglas
Wikipedia
- Social Credit
- C. H. Douglas
- William Aberhart
- Social Credit Party of Canada
- Social Credit Party (New Zealand)
- Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Videos
- An Introduction to Social Credit - animated video by The Clifford Hugh Douglas Institute
- The weird "Social Credit" movement by
J.J. McCullough - Douglas Social Credit (YouTube Channel)
