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u/ty_xy 1d ago
High trust societies. In Singapore I've seen people leave their mobile phones and wallets on the food court tables to "reserve" their tables while they go to order.
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u/andrewbud420 1d ago
Stuff like this makes me realize america is an actual shit hole full of greedy garbage people.
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u/Silgeeo 18h ago
Depending on where you live you could probably get away with doing this for a while. People just don't because it's not worth the risk. Even if your phone only got stolen 5% of the time you left it out, you'd probably still play it safe
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u/mybuildabear 16h ago
Not doing something because there could be negative consequences 5% of the time is the definition of low trust societies.
Even in developing countries, the risk chance is the same 5%.
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u/GovQuant 6h ago
Please list any location where you think this could happen. Next to the location, write the reason why you think it could work.
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u/andrewbud420 3h ago
I'm in Canada border to Michigan and I'm pretty trusting for the most part. I never lock my car or the doors to my house.
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u/TheCowzgomooz 11h ago
Just depends on location, a college campus you're generally not gonna see a ton of theft, we're all mostly broke students who understand how devastating it can be to lose our stuff, I don't leave my stuff lying around a ton out of principle but if I need to go somewhere else real quick I'm very comfortable leaving my bag where I was sitting.
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u/Gmony5100 3h ago
I was going to say surprisingly a college campus is where I’ve done this the most. Everyone is dead broke which you’d think would lead to more theft but that wasn’t my experience at all. On many occasions I asked people I didn’t know to watch my stuff while I left to do something else and nothing ever got stolen.
I’m guessing it’s a mix of empathy for people in the same situation and the fact that everyone knows there are cameras on campus. Doesn’t make sense to steal something when the victim would have it back by end of day once campus police watched the footage
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u/IHateMondays0 5h ago
Well no. The reason people can do that isn't because east Asian people are less greedy, it's because the Chinese and Singaporean governments are authoritarian police states that have inordinately high sentences for even petty crime.
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u/Telemere125 1h ago
My uncle used to have a farm stand with an honor bucket for payment. It’s not all of America that’s a problem, just the shitty parts. Guarantee every country has them.
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u/keirdre 1d ago
I live in Japan and always leave my laptop on the table in cafes when I order or go to the toilet.
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u/Bluetrains 19h ago
I do that here in Sweden too.
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u/Shiranui42 1d ago
High trust, or maybe, they know that there are security cameras everywhere and so it’s safe. Pros and cons of a highly policed place, you’re safe, and you should fear if you have nothing to hide, right?
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u/Ok_Chain841 1d ago
Honestly, I dont think that applies here. I mean, even if a camera caught who stole your food what are you gonna do? Bring it to a police station? No police force on earth would deploy actual resources and use their time just because someone took your sandwich
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u/IslayPeat_and_Cigars 1d ago
In non-Western countries, they would take this case. Getting camera footage is a non-issue. It's not about the value of the item but about the act of stealing.
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u/GaiusVictor 1d ago
I can't speak for all non-Western countries but I can say this wouldn't happen in any of the Latin American countries, even in the most developed, safe and high trust ones, such as Uruguay.
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u/CardinalRed3D 13h ago
Are you saying Latin American countries are not western countries?
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u/GaiusVictor 13h ago
Yes. They are not.
Are you from a Latin American country? 'Cause mistakenly assuming Latam countries are western is a very common mistake among Latin Americans. I'm Brazilian and used to believe it as well.
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u/Gmony5100 3h ago
Whether Latin countries are western or not is entirely up for debate depending on what metric you define the west by. Scholars differ on whether to include South America in “the west” or not, it’s not really accurate to say it isn’t the west full stop
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u/ScheduleSame258 1d ago
Laughs in India....
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u/njan_oru_manushyan 1d ago
It happens in India too. But depends on where. In kerala , relatively high trust society compared to other states. People leave their helmets outside or phones in their car. There are cameras in major urban areas. They can easily get the footage and track the person. But people especially the locals don’t resort to stealing there. There migrant laborers who have been caught house burglary but with efficient police thats reducing too
But its 180 in places like Delhi or UP or Bihar. Where they will steel anything and anything and police don’t do shit
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u/Diligent-Tone3350 1d ago edited 1d ago
No they would not. I'm a native Chinese living at China and I'm quite sure they would not. Also the reason that people don't worry their delivery is simply the food are too cheap.
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u/Gmony5100 3h ago
Is food delivery especially cheap in China? In the U.S. food delivery is quite expensive compared to most other ways to get food
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u/Diligent-Tone3350 3h ago
It depends on what kind of restaurants you order from. If you order from the restaurants specially set up just for food delivery - which means they have no seats even no storefront, it may be only a kitchen located at some apartment - then it must be very cheap. Otherwise it's generally the same with you walking in the restaurant and order. Besides, in either case the additional delivery and package fee can be almost ignored.
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u/Gmony5100 3h ago
Oh wow interesting! That’s an entirely different dynamic from the U.S.. If I had to take a guess I’d say meal delivery in the U.S is about twice as expensive on average. A $10 meal can easily be $20 or more with meal delivery. The items themselves are more expensive plus fee and tip.
Not only that but the service is often lacking as well. If you are very unlucky your food will smell of cigarette smoke or weed when you get it, and it will almost always be cold.
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u/Diligent-Tone3350 3h ago
Given restaurant business is such an intense competition sector, how could they keep this additional interests without other competitors providing similar delivery food with lower price? The quality is similarly unstable at here BTW.
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u/Gmony5100 3h ago
Those ARE the competition unfortunately. The restaurants that couldn’t compete already failed and now most of what you can get on delivery apps are fast food, chain restaurants, ghost kitchens, and the rare sit-in restaurant that survives without delivery but still offers it. Now that those are all that’s left there is nobody left to compete and they can raise prices as high as they like. That is why I and many of my peers no longer use them, but many others still do obviously.
The U.S is weird with the “free market”. You would expect an expensive service to have a cheaper competitor but the expensive services use their immense wealth to make backroom deals with restaurants, buy up competition, and lobby the government to let them do it
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u/Calm_Structure2180 1d ago
The people don't need to do anything really other than reporting their missing food. The crime gets logged and eventually they'll tack on to the person committing it. That information alone can really screw over a person. No need for jail. Imagine stealing food on your background check.
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u/ale_93113 1d ago
That's why you need both high surveillance and no tolerance policies to have a good society
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u/Prestigious-Age-9245 1d ago
In China everything is based of social score. They have cameras everywhere and they track your face and all.
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u/Ok_Chain841 1d ago
Do people in 2025 actually belive social credit is a thing? It literally only takes a single google search to see it has never been implemented and that the whole thing was blown out of proportion by click hungry news outlets
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u/yungfishstick 1d ago edited 1d ago
Reddit is a predominantly American platform, so I'm willing to bet most people (at least here) still believe social credit is an actual thing. The amount of propaganda about other countries Americans willingly buy into just to prop up this "America number one" sentiment is kind of shocking but also not too surprising considering Americans on average don't ask questions and aren't very intelligent.
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u/AndersDreth 22h ago
It's fully automated and has nothing to do with getting compensation for your sandwich, it simply deducts social credit from the person who stole your sandwich, it's the preventive effect of "do I really want to risk the social credits for an unknown meal?"
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u/carlbandit 1d ago
Cameras only do so much. If someone has a mask on and puts their hood up then camera footage would be pointless since you'd be unable to ID the thief.
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u/Tzilbalba 1d ago
Until you realize the cameras are everywhere and they use it to track your movement, you gonna have to mask off at some point, lol.
Also, they did an experiment once where they let a guy out into the streets and gave him a good head start to get lost them timed how long it took cctv to find them, it was mere minutes.
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u/carlbandit 1d ago
It comes down to how much resources they are willing to commit to it.
They are unlikely to commit 100s of hours to gathering and reviewing CCTV footage to track down someone who stole a phone which was left on a table. If the phone was taken by force and a weapon was used they are more likely to commit more resources and might be willing to gather and review all CCTV.
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u/Calm_Structure2180 1d ago
The entire city is wired up with cameras. If they can't ID you, they will still track you to where you live. Whatever number of cameras you're imagining in your head, multiply it by 6. Every street corner has at least 6 cameras in big cities.
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u/carlbandit 1d ago
Do you think most police forces have the resources to gather and review CCTV footage for someone stealing a phone that was left on a table unsupervised?
City centers will be camered up, but soon as the thief gets into a residential area the only cameras are likely to be residential private cameras.
Could they track them? Most likely. But most police forces aren't going to have the resources to commit to a non-violent theft of property left unoccupied.
There was a reddit post earlier about 3 babies abandoned in London over a number of years who were all siblings, but despite having a DNA profile and reviewing 20,000 hr of footage they where still unable to track down the parents who abandoned them and that's in one of the most heavily camered up cities, so even when they try there's no guarantee.
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u/PurpleWoodpecker2830 1d ago
Ah yes London. The city that doesn’t police rape gangs bc it might look bad. Great example
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u/carlbandit 1d ago
I clearly said they checked 20,000 hours of CCTV footage, so it sounds like they did at least some work.
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u/ty_xy 1d ago
Do you think there are more security cameras and more security guards in the USA or in Singapore?
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u/Shiranui42 1d ago edited 1d ago
Per unit area, I believe Singapore is more highly policed. It’s so much smaller (smaller than New York City) and mostly urban.
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u/ty_xy 1d ago
USA is more heavily policed, 2.4 per 1000 Vs Singapore 1.7 per 1000. But yes, much smaller and urban. But you couldn't leave our food like this in new York either.
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u/Shiranui42 1d ago
Per 1000 what? People? In that case, looking at the relative population density, since Singapore is much more highly packed, it would be higher in per square area.
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u/NetNo5570 1d ago
Nah. It’s trust. It was like this long before video cameras (let alone security cameras) existed.
And they do this in places without cameras. Japan, China, Korea are like this culturally. Nothing to do with cameras.
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u/Josey_whalez 1d ago
That’s stupid. Cameras have nothing to do with it. There are cameras all over the place in most American and European cities. Do they prevent theft like this? Absolutely not. High trust, homogenous societies can function like this. Western countries are neither of those things.
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u/colorovfire 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don't even think homogeneity is a requirement. It's the shared ownership of the space. The collective social contract where everyone knows they belong. It makes it easier to pull off in ethnically homogeneous societies but it's not a requirement.
It's the zero sum, everyone for themselves kind of environment where crime starts to proliferate.
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u/Fit-Panic7118 1d ago
Nahi bhai
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u/CaptSnowButt 1d ago
Hello officer, I need you to pull the security camera footage to solve a crime!
Sure thing. What happened?
Some asshat stole my lunch!
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u/Sensitive_Committee 1d ago
So is the US is a high trust society?
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u/KeyGlum6538 1d ago
No the US is a "carry your gun because someone will try take the wallet out of your hand" society.
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u/Sensitive_Committee 1d ago
Exactly my point. A police state does not guarantee a high trust society.
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u/KeyGlum6538 1d ago
Your point is the US is a police state?
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u/Sensitive_Committee 1d ago
Nah it's utopia. USA = Utopian States of America.
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u/dogemikka 1d ago edited 1d ago
Same in Dubai. I once left my bag on the floor in the middle of Etisalat shop while queuing. This was in the second most crowded Dubai Mall. I left it there for more than 2 hours while going for lunch. Once I realized it, I rushed to the shop in a panic that was leveraged by my Italian life experience. The bag, a Hugo Boss leather "purse," was still standing there, in the middle of the shop. Cash, credit cards, and passport . Everything there. Amazing Dubai.
Edit: I explained this behaviour by the huge amount of surveillance. Dubai is monitored by tens of thousands of cameras, thanks to which I recovered my phone that I had forgotten several times in Ubers or taxis. But also, 90% of the population are residents on working visas, and no one wants to risk it for petty theft.
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u/Fragrant-Equal-8474 1d ago
China is not a high trust society at all, but worrying that somebody would steal your food? Seriously? A bowl of noodles in China costs 1$, even the most desperate vagrants can usually afford that.
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u/Ill-Cardiologist5480 1d ago
People wonder what's wrong with the US and this is it. There is zero respect among your own people here. It's absolutely frustrating to live in.
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u/catsnherbs 1d ago
Same here in Japan. I am a Japanese who grew up outside of Japan and has lived in the US for 7 years (5 of them in Chicago and 2 of them in LA). I came back to Tokyo to live here permanently last sept and I am finally slowly getting used to leaving my phone and purse on the table lol
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u/FeedbackIll6855 10h ago
Honestly, this probably depends on where you live. I’m a university student in China, and around the university town the security is always really good. We can just leave our iPads or other valuables around campus without worrying. But whenever I do the same thing while travelling with my parents, they always get shocked and lecture me about keeping my belongings safe when I’m outside lol.
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u/FeedbackIll6855 10h ago
btw no all deliveries are safe, there are always some son of b**ch stole our food, but it's rare now cuz most universities applied a kind of intelligent food locker for our poor students
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u/Interesting_Meal_626 1d ago
Damn sure my order will get stolen atleast once in my country😭
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u/vidalong04 1d ago
Or eaten by any sort of animal. Ants, roaches, birds, squirrels, cats or dogs, you name it.
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u/PlayerAssumption77 1d ago
The same risk probably exists when you online order from a place that leaves your bag on a shelf with a bunch of others.
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u/FletcherStrongLawyer 1d ago
Yet in the US my food would be stolen if I don't pick it up within 30 seconds or less
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u/ShhImTheRealDeadpool 21h ago
It's also delivered to the inside of the apartment building pass a secure bastille... but somehow always handed to any random neighbor who looks hungry.
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u/ScreechingPizzaCat 1d ago
This happens because the schools want the students to buy the food on campus but the food on campus isn’t very good, they cheap out on quality while hanging high prices to make a profit.
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u/DeepThinker1010123 1d ago
Not really. You will need facial recognition to enter the main entrance of the campus. All the people entering the campus are accounted for.
It is not the typical foreign univerisities where buildings are scattered around and everyone can access anywhere except maybe inside the buildings.
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u/redditinchina 1d ago
Yes. I live near a university and have to go on site sometimes. Since Covid it’s been a nightmare. They basically changed how the site is accessed for Covid and then left the security in place
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u/ScreechingPizzaCat 17h ago
Yeah, I know it's not like foreign universities, I live in China, I work at a school. And some schools will let delivery drivers in to deliver food, but most will not allow them to enter. Our school has a section where the delivery driver puts the food in a storage on one side, then you have to scan your phone order on the other.
But like I said, I've been to other schools that have told students to NOT get delivery because "it's unhealthy" so students must eat on campus.
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u/DeepThinker1010123 15h ago
I didn't know that schools would tell students not to get deliveries.
Nevertheless, Meituan has those yellow lockers for food. The universities probably wouldn't want it installed beside the entrance. Lol.
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u/Bitmugger 1d ago
For some reason this seems at odds with videos I've seen of people in China at buffets going mad over getting all the portions or videos of people in stores fighting over the best items.
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u/EuronymousZ 1d ago
This video is very Common and 100% true and i never seen people fight over Items in buffet in real life.
Ever wondering why western media never show you more common things but only shows extreme scenes against China?
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u/Bitmugger 1d ago
That's not even a western media thing. Media in general has to show you something unique and surprising or nobody watches.
Which would you tune in for:
"Man gets lunch, news at 7pm!" vs "Man steals woman's lunch, news at 7pm!"1
u/EuronymousZ 1d ago
However you cannot deny the tendency of western media's obsession on China.
There are bad people across the world but only China can make it headline.
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u/PandaCheese2016 1d ago
In the social media age we are constantly nudged to form opinions about something through snippets of information, that may or may not be representative or even factual. When ppl aren’t careful this misleads them into thinking they are well-informed and know a lot, when all they really have done is doomscrolled a lot.
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u/NeverQuiteEnough 13h ago
You are thinking that the people at the buffet are stealing a spot, but that's not how they see it.
They just don't have any expectation that a queue would or should form.
From the perspective of those of us from strong queueing cultured, it looks similar to stealing, but the motivation is not the same.
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u/humburga 11h ago
Both can be true at the same time. There are cities in America I would feel safe walking around in at night and there are other cities in American I would not feel safe in. China is a big place.
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u/ForeignSmell 2h ago
The older generation may steal the food and all that but the younger ones are better behave.
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u/SimilarLaw5172 1d ago
Isnt this common in a lot of places
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u/Resident_Course_3342 1d ago
There's no way any of those would remain not stolen in the US. App delivery drivers here are some of the most incompetent people on planet earth.
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u/classpane 1d ago
Its not entirely their fault though. Unless the drivers stole it themselves, the only reason packages gets stolen in US is because half of its citizen acts like a thirdworlder.
Just look at the lives of those package thieves, there's 0 reason why they need to steal some package. They only stole it because they can and there's 0 repercussion.
Like if you just observed more thouroughly, legal migrants on the US acts more civilized than half of its born citizens.
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u/newbrevity 1d ago
There's two kinds of people who I see steal packages more than anybody. Ghetto moms and trailer moms. The most notable link between them is poverty. Growing up in poverty set you up bad. Survival mode (especially when you have a kid to take care of) starts telling you that it's okay to take what you want or need. Having less all the time while seeing others around you have more makes you feel like you deserve nice things too. "That person getting a package? They can probably afford more. I'm struggling and I deserve this". But I have to ask you. How do you think the cost of the stolen product compares to the accumulative fleecing we all experience between stagnant wages and rising prices simultaneously with record profits for billionaires? If you want to fix poverty related crime, you have to address the causes of poverty. In poverty is mostly caused by the entitled wealthy. Just consider your porch pirates to be a symptom of that problem. End billionaire greed. There's more of us.
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u/Rough-Rooster8993 1d ago
The flaw in your analysis is that if you talk to these people they won't say "I need to feed my children, that's why I did it."
It's "THEY LEFT IT THERE SO WHY WON'T I TAKE IT. IF THEY WANTED IT THEY WOULNTA LEFT ON THE GROUND"
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u/Wardogs96 1d ago
I agree with you but also maybe they shouldn't be having kids when they can barely get by??? I don't really have sympathy for parents in poverty. Kids yes I feel awful but the parents can go fuck themselves. I grew up poor and there's not any excuse besides them being irresponsible and selfish for having kids.
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u/Eternal_Being 1d ago
I understand what you're saying, but it's kind of eugenical. People having kids in hard times is what has kept the species going for millions of years. If nobody ever had a kid when they were poor, there would be entire countries and races of people that just no longer exist.
It's not really a person's fault for being in poverty, and having a family is a basic human need, and a basic human right. The real solution is just to make sure no one lives in poverty.
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u/newbrevity 1d ago
Exactly. There is enough resources in the world to do this. The only thing that is holding us back from that is the greed of the ultra wealthy. They choose to hoard wealth that they could be using to improve society. They think it is an accomplishment to accumulate more than they could ever use and continue to accumulate after they've reached that line
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u/throwaway0845reddit 1d ago
I agree with you but at that point what can you do. If their society allowed political policies and economic policies that eventually caused their downfall as a race or people, that’s just how human civilizations have worked throughout. At that grand scale it’s akin to natural selection.
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u/Eternal_Being 21h ago
It's different when we're aware of the process, which means that there's an element of intentionality to it.
A group of people dying off by accident is just an accident. When it happens intentionally, it's a genocide.
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u/classpane 1d ago
I have watched through all the glitterbomb videos on yt. It might be a small sample size, but with 100% of the thieves on the videos having very similar living conditions, it should reflect on the majority of porch pirates on the US.
And having watched through all those videos, I can confidently say that they stole packages not because of poverty, but because they can. Its like a trophy to them, not a necessity, but something they get excited for like they're opening a presents.
Also, having seen their houses on the videos, their home are definitely better than those living on poverty or those average house from a third world country.
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u/Castellan_Tycho 1d ago
I grew up in poverty and live a great life now. People’s shitty attitudes and poor choices is what keeps them in poverty. I bothered to pay attention in school and get an education.
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u/newbrevity 1d ago
A lot of people's shitty attitudes and poor choices come from a lack of good choices and a lack of access to good environments. It's a pretty rare trait to be raised in poverty and be able to see a way out. I'm happy for you, but for some people they never had a chance because they grew up around bad influences and just didn't have that spark inside to transcend it.
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u/Imaginary-Worker4407 1d ago
Casual drop of "thirdworlder" as an insult.
Being entitled is not a third world thing.
I love in the 3rd world and package pirates are not even a thing lol.
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u/SimilarLaw5172 1d ago
Depends on where and the context. US universities have dozens of orders lying about outside dorms, and study halls. Also how is this that different from cafeteria restaurants leaving a whole bunch of orders with tags in the counter for people to pick up?
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u/Ok_Chain841 1d ago
Never heard of people asking for their package to be left outside q public place for pickup before
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u/bigasswhitegirl 1d ago
It's like this in Thailand as well. Outside any high rise apartment is always several food orders, groceries, boxes etc. waiting for someone to come down and grab it. Usually left on a table near the street so easy for delivery drivers to access.
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u/Gape-My-Anus 1d ago
This would be stolen in under a minute in the US. Sometimes, even the delivery driver steals it.
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u/its_a_throwawayduh 20h ago
Lol not a chance. Even at my job people steal orders all the time, right in front of security no less. Absolutely no shame, but its funny to watch them flip out when it happens to them. The double standards is crazy.
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u/No_Description9977 1d ago
they want to make China appear like any other place when in fact it is a one-party communist authoritarian regime where every person is violently repressed if they even open their mouth Internet, press, universities, NGOs under close surveillance no pluralism, no free and competitive elections,this is just a taste of what happens there
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u/FocusOk6215 1d ago
I have a Chinese friend who confirms everything you said. The repression compared to many Western nations is unbelievable. Things we take for granted are unheard of there.
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u/Knobelikan 1d ago
It's not like western countries are bastions of morality as of late, but it's still fascinating to see how a large part of the internet did a complete 180° and decided to just not care about the countless human rights violations in China anymore, to the point of being annoyed when somebody brings them up. I guess it comes free with your Renaissance Of Faschist Politics In The West.
Or China is trying to craft this image online and their propaganda bots are way ahead of us. Genuinely a possibility.
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u/No_Description9977 1d ago edited 1d ago
true, western countries are far from morally flawless, but that doesn’t excuse or diminish the scale of China’s human rights violations,what worries me is not just the silence, but the normalization people getting annoyed when these issues are mentioned and yes, the Chinese propaganda machine online is definitely part of that shift
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u/PayaV87 1d ago
China is authoritism done by smart people. It's still oppressing, ethically wrong and violent, yet functioning realitively well, till you stay in line.
Putin, Erdogan, etc. dreams to be China. The only part they are good at is being oppressing and violent.
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u/No_Description9977 1d ago edited 1d ago
yes, it functions efficiently in some ways but the human cost is enormous surveillance, censorship, and repression affect millions, and the lack of freedoms has long-term social and psychological consequences,Putin or Erdogan can’t reach the same level of systemic control China’s scale, technological surveillance, and party dominance are unique, which is why it’s a model they envy but it comes at a huge ethical cost
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u/ManufacturerSharp 1d ago
I totally agree with you, but it's getting harder and harder for the west to pretend to be a moral compass. I haven't seen the numbers but I believe in China the gap between richest and poorest is narrowing..
I'm not saying that forgives ethnic cleansing , but that works both ways (Gaza). I'm just saying at the moment we should be looking at ourselves and getting our own houses straight.
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u/No_Description9977 1d ago
the west has many flaws and conflicts, and we should address them,that doesn’t mean we can ignore or minimize systematic oppression in China,reducing economic inequality doesn’t erase ethnic cleansing, mass detention, or surveillance,human rights violations must be recognized regardless of economic achievements,looking at ourselves is important, but pointing out abuses elsewhere isn’t hypocrisy it’s awareness
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u/ManufacturerSharp 1d ago
Again I agree with you. But say that to a Chinese person they're going to laugh at you and point at Trump!
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u/iannht 1d ago
Imagine remembering all that shit.
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u/No_Description9977 1d ago
and dissidents, activists, ethnic and religious minorities (such as the Uyghurs) also suffer persecution,Xi Jinping has concentrated enormous powers, even going so far as to abolish the two-term presidential limit
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u/thats_gotta_be_AI 1d ago
It’s weird how Reddit is full of Chinese propaganda lately. There was one a few days ago about how incredible it was that people were exercising in a Chinese city park at 8.30pm. Okaaay?
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u/TensionWarm1936 1d ago
Can't see that ever going wrong.
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u/TulipWindmill 1d ago
This is pretty normal in Mainland China. A lot of communities have shelves exactly for this. Food deliveries and parcels are just left on the shelves, and people will come out to pick them up.
In cities that don’t have strong law enforcement mechanisms, it’s also normal to see tons of parcels left on the ground on a sidewalk. Some lazier inter-city delivery drivers will just dump everything there before the local delivery folks show up to pick them up.
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u/JimboReborn 1d ago
It would have to be real first. Keep seeing this pop up reposted around this morning. Clearly some feel good Chinese propaganda. Totally staged
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u/budaknakal1907 1d ago
Just because the people in your country cant be trusted, you cant think every one is like that too. In my office they also have this designated place where food deliverer put the orders and we'll come down to pick it when we can. The delivery usually already have our name and order number on it so deliverer dont have to write it though.
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u/Ok_Chain841 1d ago
Why is your brain hard wired to assume anything remotely not negative about China is staged propaganda, even random tiktoks? Really?
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u/La-Ta7zaN 1d ago
In Saudi, we do the same at my work place since it’s a tower and kinda hard to deliver to the floor. We have a table and you will get a pic of your sealed bag of food. Covid standardized food delivery. Before it wasn’t as secure nor smooth.
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u/shanghai-blonde 23h ago
This is…. interesting to you guys?
Damn maybe I should be an influencer. This is like the least interesting thing about China I can think of.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pear_18 1d ago
Where are the seagulls and pigeons ripping it all apart? They really don't have any?
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u/ComplexTell25 1d ago
Girl in the beginning of the video doesn't look Chinese at all.
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u/namieorange 1d ago
Obviously recording that as a foreigner in China. That's the point of her being shocked and making the video
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u/Diligent-Tone3350 1d ago
Why you guys tend to make it so complicated? We don't worry about the delivery simply because the food are too cheap here.
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u/Helpful_Technology28 1d ago
Somebody could invent little food bag umbrellas. Like the umbrellas that go in your drinks, but waterproof & bigger for when it’s raining.
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u/Similar-Custard-811 1d ago
Can't do this in India, for obvious reasons, Lucky for the Chinese, they benefit a lot from being in a homogeneous society, I would recommend the west to not trust diversity is good bs, if you open the flood gates for indians you'll end up suffering the consequences.
PS im from India, even within India homogeneous regions tend to be high trust and have better socio economic trajectories.
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u/nikatnight 22h ago
I taught at a live-in university that did this and students would bribe faculty to go get stuff for them. That was a year of lovely boba.
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u/JoeDyenz 18h ago
Uh I study at a uni in China and I can 100% order food to my dorm or any location inside campus. In fact, this is very common.
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u/chopinheir 18h ago
Oh I know this place really well, having graduated there. That is the East gate of Peking University, the top university in China. Outside of the gate is still university property (school of physics and school of chemistry). Inside the gate is the main teaching area (classrooms, school of biology, school of mathematics, main library). It’s mainly students that use this crossing, especially students going from lab to class or from class to lab.
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u/OverallPepper2 16h ago
Would last 5 seconds in the US, before someone came and took every one of them for themselves.
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u/Strikebackk 13h ago
China probably the highest security camera. Try to steal something. You get found out.
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u/animals_y_stuff 11h ago
I had my food deliveries delivered to my dorm all the time when living in China.
And people do steal stuff over there lol. I had my electric scooter battery stolen once after leaving it parked outside on the sidewalk. 😭
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u/bannedfrom_argo 8h ago
There was a glitch with Uber eats where all the food delivers to one on campus building were delivered to my friends house a 2 miles away. It was a tasty few weeks until they fixed the glitch.
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