"In a high-trust society, you don't need a lot of surveillance. The surveillance is even undermining the trust: it's punishing people who look suspicious, but do the right thing.

In a low-trust society, surveillance can be the better trade-off.

The US is currently making a transition from a relatively high-trust to a low-trust society, so the surveillance will increase."

-- Joscha Bach

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@fribbledom I don't think the USA has ever been a high trust society in my lifetime. Maybe the lack of trust is just finally hitting the average, white upper middle and richer classes?

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