Has China’s social rating system come to America? Once something is potential it very often becomes actual. Like the big red button marked ‘do not push’, some curious fellow always does.
Those with lower scores find daily life harder. They aren’t allowed to buy high speed train tickets or take flights. Doors close to certain restaurants. Their children may not be allowed to go to college.
Such report card systems are bound to hunt down the outliers. Unfortunately that is often where the solution to the challenge problem lies. The knowledge potential of a society is highly correlated with its ability to rigorously describe what it doesn’t know. If you considered things you didn’t know as blank volumes with only titles, how would you file them in the Dewey Decimal System?