WEF-affiliated advisor Yuval Harari: “The social credit system is the new form of money” and the role of the e-ID

In an interview, Israeli historian and leading thinker at the World Economic Forum, Yuval Noah Harari, outlined the foundations of total digital control. His statements sound like a glimpse into the future – or like the disclosure of a global program: The social credit system, according to Harari, is nothing less than the “logical evolution of money.”

The monetization of all aspects of life

Harari explains that conventional currency – whether gold, dollars, or Bitcoin – only values a limited portion of human activity. Work, trade, consumption, production – all of this is measured in monetary terms. But much of what concerns everyday social and moral life has remained priceless: friendship, helpfulness, social behaviour, or environmental awareness.

The social credit system, Harari argues, will fully encompass this area. Every action – whether visiting a friend, helping an elderly person, or separating trash – will be assigned a quantified value. “The idea is to monetize everything, to give value to every single action you do in life,” says Harari. Even reputation or standing will be translated into precise points.

The totalitarian potential of the evaluation

This development, Harari argues, could give rise to “the most totalitarian systems in history.” Every action would have immediate consequences for people: “Everything you do affects your ability to get a job, obtain credit, or travel,” he explains.

Such a system would create a society where access to mobility, property, or services depends entirely on a digital score – a “compliance score” that measures each person’s behaviour.

The new omnipresence of surveillance

Harari points to a key difference compared to the dictatorships of the 20th century. In the past, total surveillance failed due to practical limitations. Even the Soviet KGB didn’t have 200 million agents to control 200 million citizens.

Today, however, the situation is reversed. “Now you can monitor anyone at any time. You no longer need human agents,” says Harari.

Smartphones, cameras, microphones, drones, and networked devices provide a constant stream of data. Artificial intelligence analyses it in real time. This creates, for the first time in history, the technological basis for complete, global control.

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WEF-Vordenker Yuval Noah Harari nennt das Sozialkreditsystem die „logische Weiterentwicklung des Geldes“.
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From money to obedience

What began as a digital means of payment could thus become the foundation of a societal evaluation system. Harari describes a future in which the boundary between economic and moral value disappears. “The social credit system is an extension of money……. and it can take the form of total surveillance,” he says.

Those who conform gain access to resources – those who don’t, lose them. In this way, money becomes a reward, obedience the currency.

The connection to the upcoming e-ID

Harari’s statements take on particular significance in light of current political developments. The introduction of digital identities – such as the planned e-ID in the EU and Switzerland – creates the infrastructure that makes such a rating system possible in the first place.

The e-ID is intended to centrally consolidate all personal data, accounts, and access rights: from tax and health data to payment functions. If it is one day linked to a social credit system, the behaviour of every citizen can be comprehensively monitored, evaluated, and sanctioned.

What Harari describes as a theoretical vision is therefore no longer a distant future, but a technocratic design that is already taking concrete form in legislation, platform regulation, and digital identity architecture.

The social credit system would then not only be a tool of control – but a complete change of the relationship between people, the state, and technology. A system that no longer treats people as citizens, but as data sets.

yogaesoteric
November 2, 2025