[fooker]

>Yes, but your popularity doesn't affect your experience of buying bread or your ability to reach a destination

Your credit score does. In some places and situations, more directly than others.

[themacguffinman]

Your credit score is a lot more straightforward and reliable than something like social popularity.

[fooker]

See what China is doing with the concept.

[themacguffinman]

That's not the same thing. China has some kind of scoring system, but it's much more totalitarian and popularity based than the credit score you were referring to in the US and other Western countries which is fairly straightforward. It's not helpful to conflate the two.