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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by wavefunction on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:55AM (#35888293)
I'd only roast you for misunderstanding the "problem" to be solved. It's not that the societies are "low-trust" but that the cost of being caught for cheating is that you continue with the life already available to you or you win a golden ticket if you're not caught. It's a no-brainer.

There's no reason to not-cheat unless you absolutely don't have to and what's the maxim about good programmers, they're so lazy they'll figure out a work-around to save themselves some time? Even if it's stuff they know already? Once you're into the system there are mutual shared interests and political efforts that can support such a career.

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by tristor on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:45AM (#35889040)
You essentially just described the difference between low-trust and high-trust societies. In low-trust societies because minimal trust exists, violating trust has minimal consequences. With high-trust societies, losing trust has heavy consequences, because you've violated an expected social norm and it creates reputational damage.
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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by JohnFen on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:45AM (#35889044)
> There's no reason to not-cheat unless you absolutely don't have to

It's a shame that being a decent person is not sufficient reason.

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by throw9away6 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:47PM (#35889939)
Many generations of people before us ended up prematurely dead by being decent people while others cheated
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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by JohnFen on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:18PM (#35890383)
And many generations of people before us ended up prematurely dead by cheating, as well.
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