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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
Example.
In the 1940s/50s Coke Cola was sold using an honor system dispenser.
There was no complicated machinery holding on to the bottle until you put your money in. Instead you just reached in and took your pop then tossed your money into a coin box.
Today most people would steal the pop...
Someone else would steal the coin box...
And then someone would steal the cooler..
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That's interesting. Sometimes putting up barriers makes some people want to break them. I wasn't alive in the 40's or 50's, but when my mom would take us trick or treating,Moshe used to leave a pumpkin with candy in it and a note to take 2 and not be a greedy goblin and I think most people were honorable.
A special pumpkin dispenser rigged to give only 2 candies would have seemed like an invitation to break it.
Have there been social psych tests on honor system stuff like this recently?