The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You
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The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You
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This is interesting because there is a cheating epidemic going on in higher education and I'm continuously wondering what happens if it isn't resolved. Students cheating with impunity breeds more students cheating, into a spiral until all students cheat and the credentials becomes meaningless.
The credentials enable trust at scale.
You're pointing at people leaning on reputations for trust. What happens when the most reputable institutional credentials no longer represent the quality they once did?
Just one more unsettling thing to think about
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This is interesting because there is a cheating epidemic going on in higher education and I'm continuously wondering what happens if it isn't resolved. Students cheating with impunity breeds more students cheating, into a spiral until all students cheat and the credentials becomes meaningless. The credentials enable trust at scale. You're pointing at people leaning on reputations for trust. What happens when the most…
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This is interesting because there is a cheating epidemic going on in higher education and I'm continuously wondering what happens if it isn't resolved. Students cheating with impunity breeds more students cheating, into a spiral until all students cheat and the credentials becomes meaningless. The credentials enable trust at scale. You're pointing at people leaning on reputations for trust. What happens when the most…
Also high schools. demographics of Thomas Jefferson High School (one of the best in the country) vs. Fairfax county.
I spent decades foolishly believing people didn’t cheat because I grew up around a bunch of Christians. Now, cheating is pervasive. Game theory in action
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#71. The late stage of capitalism must have started back in Roman times, caveat emptor.
2. Most societies are low trust societies, with certain exceptions usually based on draconian law enforcement.
I don't trust a lot of thought was put into this article
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This is interesting because there is a cheating epidemic going on in higher education and I'm continuously wondering what happens if it isn't resolved. Students cheating with impunity breeds more students cheating, into a spiral until all students cheat and the credentials becomes meaningless. The credentials enable trust at scale. You're pointing at people leaning on reputations for trust. What happens when the most…
Interesting. When I was at university there were a few foreign contingents known for cheating academically. It was unexpected and strange ...yet, despite that, some of the students were smart yet cheated in areas they were weak in. But also didn't seem to mind sharing assignments in any area among themselves. I guess they assumed they'd learn much of what they needed in the real-world on the job.
It's sad to learn this attitude has begun to permeate our own students. People want to take short-cuts and skip the work necessary to get to the goal and miss out on the learning aspect. Maybe they expect "A.I" to do the thinking for them --but then what will they have to offer a prospective emplyer?
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I have not lived in “the city,” meaning New York, so I cannot speak from direct experience.
I agree that trust is not maintained by moral sentiment alone. But the United States is already a society with relatively harsh punishment, and yet it still has a high crime rate.
So I do not think law enforcement is the whole explanation.