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Do you feel like people used to be more trustworthy than they are now? As a millennial (I think?) it seems to me that older folks instinctively trust others more than younger folks do, but I'm not quite sure why.

It could be that we have moved from a high-trust society to a low-trust society and they older people haven’t caught on to that fact, yet. If they get burned a few times, they might hone their BS detectors by becoming more low-trust.

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I have to agree with that. The high-trust countries I have been to have had very little mass immigration. However, some of the pretty damn low-trust countries have had not had any immigration, either. I think the migration is generally from low-trust to high-trust areas because the high-trust areas have that advantage in doing honest business.

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Good point

No one immigrates to the third world

Anyone moving back to Mexico?

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Now that they have incentives to move back, they are. Until now, they only had incentives to come to the land of the freebies.

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I don't think so. I think there have always been con men and hucksters. I think as we age our bullshit detectors wear out.

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or maybe it's no longer practicing law?

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