Comment by baq
4 days ago
Civilization is built on trust, otherwise you’ll need to rebuild all of it yourself. This isn’t very different.
4 days ago
Civilization is built on trust, otherwise you’ll need to rebuild all of it yourself. This isn’t very different.
Civilization is also built on cheating and taking advantage of naive trust. This isn’t very different.
If that were dominantly true nothing would function at all. You trust and rely on thousands of people and services every day.
As others have said, if you're this skeptical I don't see why you would have been using them before this retention increase.
>If that were dominantly true nothing would function at all
And yet it is, and most things still function. Now what?
>You trust and rely on thousands of people and services every day
And I, and everybody else, distrusts and tries not to rely on thousands of people and services every day too.
Do you lock your car? Or your door? Do you use your username as password trusting nobody would stoop so low as to break it? Do you trust the goverment to put your tax money to good use? Do you trust emails with great offers from websites you didn't subscribe to? Do you trust companies not to sell your personal data?
>As others have said, if you're this skeptical I don't see why you would have been using them before this retention increase.
Because they have a technically more capable offering. For absolutely no other reason.
We’ve repeatedly watched that trust abused and exploited in these last few years, in both public and private sectors (including specifically in this field). I broadly agree with you, but I tend to think it’s a finite resource that’s eroding rapidly just now.