To be fair, sometimes simply some of us live in low-trust areas and/or micro-cultures and the machines have to be set to correspondingly annoying compensatory c

To be fair, sometimes simply some of us live in low-trust areas and/or micro-cultures and the machines have to be set to correspondingly annoying compensatory configurations. While I suspect Japan doesn’t have widespread scan-as-you-shop or Amazon Go/Fresh for cultural acceptance reasons, I’ve noticed the areas I’ve seen these in my travels have generally been what I would characterize as high trust. High agency, high trust cultures are quite a breath of fresh air to immerse oneself within, though I’m curious to see the flip side of that “grass is greener” sentiment.