EvilKittyBoy

That's the usual state of things, none really hates China, Syria, Ethiopia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela or Russia; none really hates the people living there.

It's always the governments, it's always the regimes; grabbing into power, doing things that aren't even representative of the people living there.

We should build skynet, humans really suck at leadership or large populations, even our best leaders and goverments suck.

Globalization, as brought by the internet.

Governments fears the internet more and more, because it creates more and more unregulated places, where people can be freer and freer; people come to realize we are all humans, sharing the same planet, where a scottman might have more in common with a chinese in Shenzhen than his neighbour.

I think democracy has to go, not now, but in the future, as technology advances; just like we once left feudalism and imperialism; goverment would probably advance to be handled by computer networks, crowdsourced, decentralized; instead of choosing some clown in goverment who might decide to start a dictatorship; a world of very few rules and regulations, where such a network won't distinguish countries, borders, nationalities, races or gender; it will be able to strike trade deals within itself, know what every person is able to produce and optimize the economy to the cent; such a network is ran by people, average people, because such a network is the internet as it is evolving.

Nations will then be relegated to ethical laws and cultures, markets will be huge and extend all over the world, creating equal wealth; the rich will still be richer, but so the poor will be richer than ever; it still won't be a perfect world, but it would surely be better.

We don't have the technology or the level of connectivity to do that, but hopefully it will come; honestly this is what a bunch of tech giants try to do, like Tesla, of course that's the purpose of the starlink; because in such a world, big tech will dominate; our new overlords won't be the USA/Chinese/Russian goverment, but rather, Google, Facebook, Tesla, Tencent, VK, or whoever is around at the time, nevertheless just like they cannot control the internet, just take part of it, none would be able to control such network (that's why as a joke I call it skynet because it kinda acts on its own).

Not a perfect world but sure an improvement, the ultimate form of the internet; we likely won't be alive to see it nevertheless, we will be stuck in democracies and republics to the rest of our lives, maybe our grandchildren, not only we have to run out of oil first, but we need a debt fueled recession of apocalyptic proportions.

Coming from South America, what you are saying is common sense that is taught to kids; and it goes beyond that, due to the high crime.

Even when a lot of us may seem friendly, at least from my area, we are among the most paranoid people there are (honestly that may cause a lot of trust issues but that's beyond the point).

I can't imagine a con trick working on an average person, key being average, at least from the area, in fact, I never heard of successful con artist in the area I was from; even if you somehow managed to trick someone, other people will prey on you, and I mean it; people would get incredibly vicious if you were taking advantage of their friend/family member.

What this however meant, is that these people would often rely into more violent crimes, these so be con-artists that couldn't thrive as such. Or otherwise you go trick foreigners.

What are your toughs on this?... Because I'd guess this is what a "society that is resilient to con artists" is like, in fact, it seems that as a society becomes more and more resilient to scams and tricks, violence increases as a result since violence always works, it isn't a trick (this is my subjective experience of course).

Yeah I think it's a good thing in a way :) and you are right on the combo.

Also Argentina is one of the better ones crime wise; compared to Brazil, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras; things aren't particularly great, there were a couple of reasons I left my country, one of them was crime.

Some areas are no-go zones, that's where I come from. Con artists, just, don't thrive here; it's like, people have grown so smart, there's only one form of crime left, violence. It's sad, a never-ending cycle. :( and the paranoia.

Anyway have a good night.

Just for reference when I lived in VE 2 years ago, in my home "barrio" (poor people's place) and pretty much the whole city anyway, we used the phrase "maldito maduro" to express frustration, that is maduro had become a synonym of frustration.

No electricity, "maldito maduro", no water, "maldito maduro", a long line, "maldito maduro, it's raining outside, "maldito maduro", someone downvoted your reddit comment, "maldito maduro", it was not odd to see someone ranting about something and suddenly start cursing at maduro; the author of anything wrong/bad in this world is maduro, of course it's in a joke way, but when your entire future was destroyed by the maduro's regime, he just feels like the worst thing to have ever happened and the synonym of bad and frustrating things.