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You read the news "Robberies in <your area> have increased by 30%". Would that make you more willing to redirect half your savings to my account? If so, I'm hap

• eveningcoffee 10y ago
  In principle if you are know to be a honest person and there is big enough stick (contract plus state justice system) to threaten you then it could make sense.
  • erikb 10y ago
    I hate to admit but that's true. As long as you both are under the same government and put the contracts in a form that is can be proven to a judge you probably don't have to worry as much. Sadly that's hardly the case for the most powerful countries.
• snovv_crash 10y ago
  If the alternative was keeping it under my mattress, and you were known to be a respectable citizen, then I don't see why not. Isn't this basically what a bank does already?
  • mcv 10y ago
    A bank is bound by more rules than the US.