Seems to have been mostly projection. America is the one with the "social credit score" that is used to judge people's worth before most important transactions.

Based on this Polymatter video, seems like it was mostly an exaggeration of different systems (suggestion for cities to encourage heathy behavior like not smoking cigarettes being conflated with punishments for rich people who don’t pay fines), and not really the 1984-style punishment for “thought crimes” that Americans seemed to think.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kqov6F00KMc&ra=m

housing absolutely isn’t affordable typically you need an entire families worth of income that goes to the son to afford a home, and on top of that, when you buy a home in China, you are given 70 year lease on the land, so not sure how many Americans would want that sort of thing.

Weird how despite all that, the home ownership rate in China is 96%

Hard to believe it can get worse than somewhere like Arlington, TX (or any of the many other semi suburban places in America with NO public transit (as in not a single public bus or greyhound-type a day). I feel like 70 year lease would help stop the rich from hoarding generational wealth and giving it to their kids, allowing everyone a chance at getting a house when the parents die, though not sure how well it works in practice.