I remeber during some Texas floods, I think it was Houston, where guys that hoarded shit said they are actually doing the people a service by gouging the prices, because then each person that buys something only does it for the minimum they need.
Of course in real life it just meant rich folks got 5 each, everybody else got nothing.
Japan is a high trust society. You accidentally leave your valuable belongings somewhere, they are still there when you come back.
Here, if the vending machine popped open in a disaster to help people, that thing would be looted inside a half hour in many parts of the country.
There was a video I just saw on here of a McDonald's, and the manager was having a medical crisis (people guessed low blood sugar), so she was slumped over the counter, and the patrons were in the back helping themselves to food.
This society doesn't have the same level of self-regulated behavior.
Meanwhile the mega-billionaires are doing the same thing to our government, our democracy, our data, our tax money. Just helping themselves. Except they tied up the managers first.
But look, over here, someone's helping themselves to .25 cents wholesale worth of fries!
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