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0 pointstopposter322y ago0 comments

> want some way to tell many of these companies "I am a responsible human being who respects social contracts"

Cultural background + class would be the strongest indicator of this behavior. It describes the norms and expectations to which you are accustomed. Unfortunately it's illegal to discriminate based on most signifiers of this trait.

The alternative to shared trust is costly and intrusive enforcement mechanisms.

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londons_explore2y ago

How about just asking "Have you ever returned any item to a store for any reason except that it is faulty?"

If they say no, and you don't find their name on a few big stores lists of frequent item-returners, then you trust them. Everyone else, you consider shady and don't offer good deals to.

Remember lying to gain a benefit is wire fraud - so anyone who falsely answers this question has committed a crime - and a store is totally allowed to treat a customer they suspect has a committed a crime differently.

topposter32OP2y ago

> and a store is totally allowed to treat a customer they suspect has a committed a crime differently.

That's not true either. There are vastly different standards of enforcement.

This issue is a lot bigger than returning items at the store. Every social system we have was built with assumptions about how people would behave. For example: the Seniors who are easily scammable are those who grew up around people who didn't scam each other.

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