It's really pretty simple, happy people don't tend to be assholes. Politicians, if you want less crime don't build more prisons, make life better. I mean, that's your job isn't it?
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Are you telling me that we should stop incorporating a police state, arresting homeless people for public loitering, putting bars on benches? Instead offer more public services and free healthcare to get them back on their feet and better yet, mitigate homelessness to people at risk of being homeless?
Nah, I think we should make it easier to put people in prison for misdemeanors instead.
Yes, but consider that too many people in power have no fucking clue how to run a country and they see public funds like a cookie jar.
Denmark is an extremely high trust society. Babies left in the carriage outside a shop, let yourself into the library after hours with your card, often things on the street that are for sale you can just take and mobile pay (like Venmo ~~but from the government~~) someone on the honor policy.
It's nice
like Venmo but from the government
I don't think Mobilepay is from the goverment. It was originally created by a bank, and actually there were several competing options to start with. This one won out, and is indeed the dominant mobile payment option, but as far as i know, it still is a separate and private company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobilePay
Oh, duh, danske bank made it. Good call!
They seem to have erected some crude red force fields around their belongings.
Maybe the value of the digital stuff is nothing compared to the heroin being transported in the bags!
Same in Seoul. As a white guy from NYC it blew my fucking mind to see people just leave their stuff at cafes off busy streets. I don't leave my pockets unzipped yet alone leave anything I'm not actively trying to throw out unattended.
I've seen some videos of Russian tourists stealing stuff in Korea and it made national news. Here you can't get the police to file a report.
Trains are pretty safe but we're currently experiencing a bike crime epidemic. Which I suppose is itself very Danish.
ew! a reddit link!?
Steal everything, leave the electronics.
This post stress me the hell out.
TBF on a train, there aren't a lot of places anything could disappear to unless there's a stop in between.
It's funny how even in countries where people leave their expensive belongings unattended without worrying still sees bikes as acceptable targets as if it's like a global standard. I would also put umbrellas there too.
All cheap bikes are meant to be shared.
It's not that bad in a train, as people can't just run away before the next stop. You wouldn't have this level of trust in a street cafe for instance.
Just today some bastard stole my headlight from my bike. Like two hours ago. Finland. We're known as rather honest.
But the junkie who desperately needed a 10e flashlight is welcome to have it, the pathetic sack of shit.
Me, after my soul-sucking devices are stolen on vacation: โoh no. Iโm free.โ
Brits all together now See it...
You didn't report the unattended luggage?
I had all my shit stolen in Spain.
Yeah, it's not the same there as in Scandinavia. My big sister lived in Spain for about 10 years and got robbed several times, while she has lived in Sweden the rest of her life and had never been robbed. I realise this can partially be because she didn't know what to do right in Spain to not get robbed, but the simple fact that it's something she (and mostly everyone else) in Scandinavia never need to learn or think about says something about the difference. I'm in no way saying Spain or anywhere else is a worse place or that the people there are worse, it's just a fact and there's no other meaning behind it.
How? You left it unattended?