As a young man, I lived in the Caribbean for a few years. People would clear cut fruit trees and bushes and replace them with lawns. We got here because we are stupid as fuck.

Live in the forest. Do magic. Befriend the fae. Become local folklore. Embrace your inner faerie-witch of the wood.

Land Ownership.

Really, it all boils down to the land were people could grow their own food and build their own place to live, having been taken from the Commons and made property of just some people.

We aren’t born free unless we’re born from very wealthy parents, so we’re forced to do work for others merelly to have food on our plates and a roof over our heads: we can’t just grab a piece of land and do the work ourselves in there to raise said food and build said roof and must instead first, and at minimum, work for others within a system not of our design to get our hands on the required value tokens needed to acquire said land.

Credit Scores is just a modern artifact of the increasingly complex architecture that structurally forces most of us to be servants of others without the use of direct cohertion (so that we can be swindled into believing we have free choice), which was built up from that foundation in ages past when the land was taken away from most of our ancestors and which is kept going by all manner of laws, not only those codifying and enforcing land ownership but even those which make asset ownership yield far more income than work (thus making land owners and other owners have a vast advantage in acquiring value tokens over the servants who have to work for them).

ABUNDANCE IS SCARCITY

RENTING IS OWNING

ADVERTISING IS ENTERTAINMENT

literally 2024.

Kinda reminds me when I was having an argument with my Conservative dad about how the basics we need to survive (i.e. food) should be provided free. And actually got him to see “you’re acting like it fucking grows on tress” and I just stared him down until he realised what he said and stammered out a “yeah but pigs and stuff dont” but he was clearly just a a bit embarrassed with himself.

We are the product of processes that value quantity of lives over quality of life. Agriculture did not make human lives better, but it allowed more humans to live on the same amount of land - so it won over hunting-gathering.

Simple: the earth produces a fuck tonne less food for like half the year, requiring some kind of strategy to handle the fact you have lots of food half the time and like no food the other half.

We took the “stash it in a special spot” approach.

But how do we stop other us’s from stealing our stashes?

Strength in numbers, ape strong together. We form villages.

As we grow, we need leadership, mechanisms to keep track of each other, protect each other, and rules with how to fairly treat bad actors.

Laws, democracy, judicial systems come into play.

Oh shit, other village has cool shit. They want our cool shit. Trade? Trade! Commerce comes into play.

How do we keep track of people that are reliable to trade with and can be trusted across Trade networks?

Credit. Village A vouches on behalf of Trader, they have Credability, you can trust them.

Many villages create a unified system to describe this trust in a metric…

Thus: credit score.

In other words you have a credit score because of the way the earth makes food (that is to say, about half the time)

I get what ur saying but no, the planet did not grow food. Before humans started breeding plants, the fruit from plants were barely of any nutritonal value. The berries shown here would have been a fraction of their size, much fewer per plant and would have tasted like shit.

Humanity could probably manage to live the pure vegan lifestyle today but we would still need machines, electricity, huge farms, etc to get enough supply.

Okay Chris McCandless, go live in the wild then. No one is stopping you.