Unfortunately the US doesn't have a high-trust society anymore, so paperwork is a necessary evil to prevent malicious foreign actors from wiping us clean. (See: the recent Somalian autism claims scams in Minnesota).

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tbrownaw 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Where does mass trustworthy behavior (ie, "a high trust society") come from?

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loeg 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From the perspective of 2025, it's pretty incredible how much of a higher trust society we had as recently as 2019.

	▲	Braxton1980 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How are you measuring this?

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tstrimple 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It probably starts when one of the only two viable political parties stops undermining everything possibly good in this country in their effort to prove government doesn't work.

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selimthegrim 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have more references about this?

	▲	loeg 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a very recent story, but for example: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/first-defendant-charged-a... The fraudulent provider(s) bribed parents to get their kids diagnosed autistic. As, a result, autism diagnoses of children in this community are ~3x the background rate: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-find-alarming-...