Comment by OGEnthusiast
5 months ago
Unfortunately the US doesn't have a high-trust society anymore, so paperwork is a necessary evil to prevent malicious foreign actors from wiping us clean. (See: the recent Somalian autism claims scams in Minnesota).
Where does mass trustworthy behavior (ie, "a high trust society") come from?
It probably starts when one of the only two viable political parties stops undermining everything possibly good in this country in their effort to prove government doesn't work.
From the perspective of 2025, it's pretty incredible how much of a higher trust society we had as recently as 2019.
How are you measuring this?
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Do you have more references about this?
It's a very recent story, but for example:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/first-defendant-charged-a...
The fraudulent provider(s) bribed parents to get their kids diagnosed autistic. As, a result, autism diagnoses of children in this community are ~3x the background rate:
https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-find-alarming-...
Interesting, my understanding was that the Somali parents were mad that their children’s autism, which wasn’t presenting the same way as the kind of standard Rain Man type of autism wasn’t being characterized correctly.
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