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I have to admit, humans will instantly game the system, as soon as self checkouts were installed in our town, degenerates were putting bottles of whisky on the scales and weighing them as onions 🤣🤣🤣🤣
degenerates were putting bottles of whisky on the scales and weighing them as onions
Your whiskey bottles are sold by weight? They’re in bottles; they should all have the same weight.
That doesn't mean you can't put them in a produce bag and ring them up as onions
Correctomundo
Like all economists, I'm fascinated by cheating
If they’d introduced economics like that, I would’ve taken more classes.
That's why there were enrollment surges after Freakonomics came out
a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for
One of my math professors would always tell us after exams that C's mean you didn't study enough and B's mean you didn't cheat enough.
I see. Even as an aspiring social engineer, I hadn't considered this kind of criminal energy. I only tested once whether I could reuse a receipt to exit (our self-checkouts only let you exit with a receipt), but I couldn't because, damn, they thought of that.
And of course, it would have been just a mistake if anyone cared.
I heard about a serial TV thief who would buy a TV, get the receipt, bring the TV to his car, run back in and grab another TV on the same receipt. Then, he returned one of the TVs to get his money back.
This is the point, these self-checkout totems are a reality and a "problem" in big cities with high shopping traffic. As mentioned, they need to verify what's being taken out by checking the weight.
When you buy local products from local merchants in a less populated area, the bitcoin circular economy can shine.
That would be great. There are still high-trust places in America but they're becoming less common and tend to be small enough that stores don't need to invest in these kinds of marginal efficiencies.
In a high trust society these aren't a problem. Unmanned stores have been commonplace in Japan and Korea for many years already and are only growing in number thanks to technology , e.g. https://web-japan.org/trends/11_tech-life/tec202309_unmanned-stores.html. So, under the right circumstances OP is on the right track and if we can fix Western urban society then shopping apps should rule. In some countries in rural areas you have produce in baskets out in the streets and you can take and just leave money in a jar.