"Homogeneous" in what way?
Because in my experience the sort of "homogeneity" that leads to high trust is that of wealth/income, and it requires a generous social net.
And to be completely transparent about where I'm coming from: I'm the father of two mixed-race children and all this talk of "homogeneous societies" reeks to me of plain old racism that will hurt my kids. And I grew up in one of those European "homogeneous" countries that right-leaning racists love to talk about, too.
Thank you for supporting my thesis that praise for "homogeneous" societies is nothing but a dog whistle for plain old racism. I hope my children won't have to suffer people like you IRL.
Edit: It is hilarious that people like you praise places like the country where I was born and the country where my wife was born, but when we marry and have mixed-race children then suddenly you label our family as a menace to society.
What happened in those dense metropolitan cores was bad, and so the good people fled, happened over and over again and people didn't learn.
There's a reason Hong Kong can have extreme population density and low crime, and detroit and any where else filled with Obama's sons is simply a place where even progressives who say things like you do try to flee.
Also, as Denmark recently discovered, homogeneity is not simply dependent on a social safety net but exists within a symbiotic relationship with the latter.
It's a big part of why we've historically had such a hard time implementing any sort of reasonable social benefits, and why the much lauded Nordic countries started cutting down on theirs the second they got a significant (racially different) refugee population.
If you want open borders and are foolish enough to add "diversity" you cannot afford generous social safety systems.
People with genetic and cultural ties are more likely to sacrifice for one another, go figure, this has to be explained now to the progressive which is madenning. You cannot have nice things when you turn the social contract into a rental car.
Race matters, its why those nordic countries the left looks at longingly as example were made possible because they were homogenous, something they've been foolishly trying to undermine by following our example. Race matters, in homogenous countries a stranger is more related to their country men than the mixed race child. Why is Japan still functional, again, its homogenous, they are a cohesive people, and yes they do fat shame.
"Immigrants use more Welfare than Native populations: " https://twitter.com/AndrewQuackson/status/829594116929511424
"Asylum seekers and immigrants from Morocco and Horn of Africa costs the Dutch state €475,000-€625,000 per immigrant.
This can't be the best use of resources! Even if you are only interested in using the tax money to help non-Dutch people, you can save a life for ~€5,000." https://twitter.com/jonatanpallesen/status/17425869645769609...
"In the 18-24 age group, immigrants commit 90% of pimping crimes, 56% of **es, and 53% of robberies despite being only a small percentage of the population. The Italian government refuses to release data showing the percentage of these crimes committed specifically by Africans." https://archive.is/20230914033526/https://twitter.com/monito...
High grade human capital for import dried up after ww2, we are no longer importing Einstein, even worse in europe to be sure.
1: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/01/05/de-diefstalcijfers-stij...
"In order to make more money we made customers self-report their purchases during a cost-of-living crisis while we were booking record high profits and now these customers are _under reporting_ their purchases, how dare they!!"
They should've seen this coming from miles away.
I'd say stealing is always a net negative effect for the whole.
But if you're saying that the entire context explains a lot of the behaviour, and could possibly be predicted, then yes I agree.
According to the opening paragraph of that article that's doesn't seem to be the case. €80 million in profit (with €100 million theft) is not all that much.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933489
I used to live in Indonesia and things are much more "high trust" in many aspects. On the other hand Indonesia also has a lot of problems with corruption and that sort of thing. "High trust/low trust" is too simplistic.
I don't have 200 other countries to compare it to, but by and large, Western countries are much less high-trust in many areas than people assume. This often becomes painfully obvious once you stray outside of the "standard happy path".
Meanwhile Netherlands elected an anti-immigration right-wing government in their last elections: https://time.com/6339173/dutch-election-results-geert-wilder...
Another related problem is that you physically can't leave the store unless you buy something and get a receipt to scan. You have to tailgate someone with a receipt, or hop the turnstyle, etc. Hope you're not in a wheelchair and change your mind / the store's out of what you were looking for!
Also those stores, at least where I live, have no physical barrier to exit.
I posted about this on Linkedin too and got a few comments about the complexity in the UK, USA, France and elsewhere. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samcritchley_it-hasnt-deliver...
Also, the 'bagging area' is on different sides in different shops. Also annoying.