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Unfortunately the US doesn't have a high-trust society anymore, so paperwork is a necessary evil to prevent malicious foreign actors from wiping us clean. (See:

Unfortunately the US doesn't have a high-trust society anymore, so paperwork is a necessary evil to prevent malicious foreign actors from wiping us clean. (See: the recent Somalian autism claims scams in Minnesota).

selimthegrim 11mo ago
Do you have more references about this?
- loeg 11mo ago
  It's a very recent story, but for example: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/first-defendant-charged-autism-fraud-scheme-0 https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/first-defendant-charged-a... The fraudulent provider(s) bribed parents to get their kids diagnosed autistic. As, a result, autism diagnoses of children in this community are ~3x the background rate: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-in-16-somali-children-diagnosed-with-autism-three-times-more-than-state https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-find-alarming-rise-in-autism-diagnoses-among-somali-american-children https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-find-alarming-...
  - selimthegrim 11mo ago
    Interesting, my understanding was that the Somali parents were mad that their children’s autism, which wasn’t presenting the same way as the kind of standard Rain Man type of autism wasn’t being characterized correctly.
    - coryrc 11mo ago
      You were very wrong. Might want to consider where you get your news. "Often, parents threatened to leave Smart Therapy and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks. Several larger families left Smart Therapy after being offered larger kickbacks by other autism centers."
      - loeg 11mo ago
        These can simply be different groups of Somali parents, for what it's worth. Presumably some Somali kids are truly autistic and not participating in the fraud scheme.
tbrownaw 11mo ago
Where does mass trustworthy behavior (ie, "a high trust society") come from?
- loeg 11mo ago
  From the perspective of 2025, it's pretty incredible how much of a higher trust society we had as recently as 2019.
  - Braxton1980 11mo ago
    How are you measuring this?
    - loeg 11mo ago
      Vibes.
- tstrimple 11mo ago
  It probably starts when one of the only two viable political parties stops undermining everything possibly good in this country in their effort to prove government doesn't work.

selimthegrim 11mo ago

Do you have more references about this?

loeg 11mo ago
It's a very recent story, but for example: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/first-defendant-charged-autism-fraud-scheme-0 https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/first-defendant-charged-a... The fraudulent provider(s) bribed parents to get their kids diagnosed autistic. As, a result, autism diagnoses of children in this community are ~3x the background rate: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-in-16-somali-children-diagnosed-with-autism-three-times-more-than-state https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-find-alarming-rise-in-autism-diagnoses-among-somali-american-children https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/researchers-find-alarming-...
- selimthegrim 11mo ago
  Interesting, my understanding was that the Somali parents were mad that their children’s autism, which wasn’t presenting the same way as the kind of standard Rain Man type of autism wasn’t being characterized correctly.
  - coryrc 11mo ago
    You were very wrong. Might want to consider where you get your news. "Often, parents threatened to leave Smart Therapy and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks. Several larger families left Smart Therapy after being offered larger kickbacks by other autism centers."
    - loeg 11mo ago
      These can simply be different groups of Somali parents, for what it's worth. Presumably some Somali kids are truly autistic and not participating in the fraud scheme.

tbrownaw 11mo ago

Where does mass trustworthy behavior (ie, "a high trust society") come from?

loeg 11mo ago
From the perspective of 2025, it's pretty incredible how much of a higher trust society we had as recently as 2019.
- Braxton1980 11mo ago
  How are you measuring this?
  - loeg 11mo ago
    Vibes.
tstrimple 11mo ago
It probably starts when one of the only two viable political parties stops undermining everything possibly good in this country in their effort to prove government doesn't work.