Feels like wherever you turn, you see a high-trust society disintegrating into a low-trust one.
To my untrained eye, this is a natural consequence of focusing on profit above all. So a natural consequence in cultures where such focus exists.
Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
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#12Feels like wherever you turn, you see a high-trust society disintegrating into a low-trust one.
To my untrained eye, this is a natural consequence of focusing on profit above all. So a natural consequence in cultures where such focus exists.
Yeah, and maybe also a focus on grabbing all you can now, without regard for the future.
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#13Why call it fraud when you can call it honey laundering?
The association with money laundering doesn’t sound good and this is already a bad buzz.
Re: Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain
#14Why call it fraud when you can call it honey laundering?
Or embuzzling.
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#15Feels like wherever you turn, you see a high-trust society disintegrating into a low-trust one.
To my untrained eye, this is a natural consequence of focusing on profit above all. So a natural consequence in cultures where such focus exists.
And yet, this has happened since we've been around.
One of the most ancient examples of the written words we have is from a copper merchant complaining about the quality of the ingots he received[1]. The tablet could just as easily have been a complaint about the quality of honey purchased.
This is a reversion to the mean.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir
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#17Here's a very straightforward guide to buying honey. If you see honey at a supermarket, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you see honey online, no you don't, that's sugar syrup. If you find an old dude with a small stand and a bunch of (most likely unlabelled) jars who only accepts cash, that's where you get real honey.
How do you know this? Is there actual reporting on what percentage of honey in supermarkets is adulterated, rather than just anecdotal reports that at least some is?
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#18Feels like wherever you turn, you see a high-trust society disintegrating into a low-trust one.
The phrase "a sucker born every minute" is not near as old as "caveat emptor" or "cui bono", but the constancy of viewpoint should have told you something
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#19Feels like wherever you turn, you see a high-trust society disintegrating into a low-trust one.
Rose colored glasses looking at the past. Nostalgia for something that never was.
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#20Why call it fraud when you can call it honey laundering?
Only solution: sting operation