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Japan has a culture of shaming which mostly works. Something like this wouldn’t work in USA because of our lack of respect for authority. Thus USA has developed
by xyst 2y ago
Japan has a culture of shaming which mostly works. Something like this wouldn’t work in USA because of our lack of respect for authority. Thus USA has developed a culture around fear instead.
Fear of jail time. Fear of fines. Fear of (unfortunately) death (ie, pretextual traffic stops).
Have read about some countries (Netherlands?) where they don’t even have turnstiles to check your ticket. You just board the train. It’s expected that you bought the ticket, why waste time checking it? Additionally, I suppose the idea here is that the cost of ticket checkers far outweighs the benefits.
- kelipso 2y agoPretty sure it's not so much trust but because there's a chance the train conductor would check tickets while you are in the train.
- nothercastle 2y agoAnd that probably worked fine while they were a homogeneous group of people but after migration of so many people into the country I don’t think trust and shame culture works with many different ethnic groups
- riversflow 2y agoAmtrak doesn’t have turnstiles to check your tickets either. The conductor will ask to see your ticket while you are riding though. Pretty sure thats normal for trains.
- Aeolun 2y agoThe Netherlands very definitely has turnstiles to check your ticket. No getting on the train without getting through the door. It’s true that there’s some smaller stations that just have a few ‘scan your card’ poles and no entry/exit block. Japan is more or less the same, except that the turnstiles won’t physically block you from entering, and are open by default.