I always assumed credit scores were an integral and historic part of the American financial system.
They were not, they are very recent，most of your parents didn’t have credit scores growing up, and as you can probably tell or at least intuit, it’s mostly just a b******* scheme for those with capital to accrue more capital by invading your privacy.
I’ve had several missed payments to utilities the most recent being 3 months late(dumb auto pay shit) and have zero marks and an 830.
My mother (dumb and irresponsible) had missed payments and none of those hit her scores either. I don’t believe this is wide spread from my personal experience and a quick Google doesn’t return anything promising so I’m not sure I can agree with that at all.