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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by arp242 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:33AM (#39029975)
Except it's neither homogenous nor high trust.
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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by alexanderchr on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:18PM (#39030564)
It's not exactly Japan-level high trust, but it is compared to most other countries in the world.
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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology by arp242 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:02PM (#39031171)
It really depends; in some areas it's exceedingly low-trust, almost paranoid. In some other areas it's probably not too bad.

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".

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