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Japan is obviously a "high trust" society, so I feel like this experiment will work. I wish we had a way to make this sort of system work in a low trust society.
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We do have a way - "high trust" enclaves inside the low trust society. The modern examples in the USA are things like colleges, community centers, etc. You gatekeeper the area and then everything inside is high-trust and you can get away with things like this. You can also find it in rural areas and some very expensive islands, too.
While driving through upstate New York on a camping trip I found a maple syrup shop run on the honor system. Leave the money in an unlocked box. It was shocking. I bought a gallon.
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I wonder if this is actual high trust or that there are security cameras everywhere.
If you've been to the rural USA you'd know it's just high-trust (and the middle of nowhere). They're pretty common for low-value things like corn and farm produce; but I've seen syrup and honey, too. There might be a camera but since there's usually no power, it'd have to be some sort of trail/game/deer cam. What would you do with the result besides some vigilante frontier justice? No cop anywhere but daytime childre…
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I wonder if this is actual high trust or that there are security cameras everywhere.
If you've been to the rural USA you'd know it's just high-trust (and the middle of nowhere). They're pretty common for low-value things like corn and farm produce; but I've seen syrup and honey, too. There might be a camera but since there's usually no power, it'd have to be some sort of trail/game/deer cam. What would you do with the result besides some vigilante frontier justice? No cop anywhere but daytime childre…
Japan is obviously a "high trust" society, so I feel like this experiment will work. I wish we had a way to make this sort of system work in a low trust society.
High trust environments tend to crumble in society when you allow too much immigration. Japan’s xenophobia has worked well in this regard.
Japan is obviously a "high trust" society, so I feel like this experiment will work. I wish we had a way to make this sort of system work in a low trust society.
I’d rather we had a way to change low trust societies into high trust.
Japan is obviously a "high trust" society, so I feel like this experiment will work. I wish we had a way to make this sort of system work in a low trust society.
Granted, this was almost 40 years ago, but this type of thing can work, even in less civilized places like the US.
Even shops with security guards dont work in the UK at the moment. It's a shame this could never be a thing here.
Japan is obviously a "high trust" society, so I feel like this experiment will work. I wish we had a way to make this sort of system work in a low trust society.
I used to buy firewood at National Forest camping sites in the US; there was a box where you dropped the money and then you grabbed a wood bundle. Granted, this was almost 40 years ago, but this type of thing can work, even in less civilized places like the US.
Gillette razors on the other hand, are expensive to stock for their size, and easy to steal because of their size.
Japan is obviously a "high trust" society, so I feel like this experiment will work. I wish we had a way to make this sort of system work in a low trust society.