It's not a lie if no one is abusing it.

Travel to high trust societies if you don't get what I mean.

Things would be so much easier if we could expect human decency and ethics, even if there is no law against it, because it goes against our values as humans.

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sallveburrpi 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Things would be so much easier if there weren’t a super small minority of extremely greedy rich and powerful people who ruin it for everyone…

Alas we decided collectively that money trumps(sic) everything so low trust society is the natural consequence of this.

At its core it’s a spiritual problem. Capitalism is cool but making it a religion has its trade offs.

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threeducks 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It's not a lie if no one is abusing it.

It absolutely is a lie, but you might live in a society where constant lying has been normalized. Personally, I believe that society would be better off if companies were held to the letter of their words.

	▲	tonyhart7 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because that’s not a lie; under special circumstances, it can be true. For example, consider a restaurant that offers free rice refills because Asian people love eating rice to fill up. An employee working overtime who really needs it can get as many refills as they want. Of course, this system falls apart if everyone starts doing it, as the restaurant would need to bake that cost into the price to sustain the business. But my point is: you can have nice things in society, or you can have a dystopia where people take advantage of each other at every single opportunity. The choice is yours.

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twelvedogs 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Someone will abuse it though, so why bother with the bullshit

You don't build high trust societies with lies