CREDIT
An exposé of how credit scores became an inescapable surveillance system that controls access to housing, jobs, and survival itself.
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Chapters
13 total- 01Chapter One - Before the Score
- 02Chapter Two - The Rise of the Bureaus
- 03Chapter Three - You Are Being Watched
- 04Chapter Four - FICO and the Black Box
- 05Chapter Five - Credit Apartheid
- 06Chapter Six - Housing and Survival
- 07Chapter Seven - Errors, Hacks, and No Accountability
- 08Chapter Eight - Punishment by Design
- 09Chapter Nine - You Can’t Opt Out
- 10Chapter Ten - The Rent Trap
- 11Chapter Eleven - Buy Now, Pay Later
- 12Chapter Twelve - The Credit Industrial Complex
- 13Chapter Thirteen - Who Scores the Scorers?
Edition notes and short pages
CREDIT
CREDIT
The Score That Rules Your Life
by James Johnson
Dedication
For everyone who got denied.
Not because they failed, but because the system expected them to.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
TO EVERY PERSON who ever said, “I had no idea it worked like this.”
That’s why this exists.
And to the millions of people trying to build a life while dragging a number behind them.
You’re worth more than your score.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JJ IS THE author of over 250 books exposing the systems, stories, and illusions that shape modern life. From Wall Street to government and religion to psychology, he writes in sharp, clear language that cuts through the fog. His work has been read around the world and passed quietly between the people who know what time it is.
COPYRIGHT
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