then the people cut off have no resort but to turn to crime
The current benefits system acually keeps crime figures down
The current system encourages bad behaviour. Ie you can be absolute scum and still get all benefits so where is the incentive to do better?
We would think that to be the outcome but look at China and the outcome is it simply crushes people who do not comply. You lose transport. You can’t get credit. You can’t move cities. You lose job opportunities. You get publicly shamed. Only the lowest of society end up like that, the rest pull into line.
Here on prison island we already have facial recognition being developed for public transport. China did the same and used it to cut off transport to petty crims because that’s how they move around.
It’ll be sold as all positive and it will work crazy well but you end up losing your own free speech.
Go back through history and when people pick the harshest outcomes on criminals and how we should be doing that today, those periods were also the hardest on free speech.