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Definitely one innovation I wish we adopted in America. But we had a high trust society for most of the past few centuries which is why we don't have one. You only build something like that if you have an entire civilization with low trust. So much so that you know you can't trust anyone about what they say, so you have to have an unchangeable record that follows them forever to not waste time on their attempts to lie to you.
A book worth reading. The author here didn't want anyone to know his name. Hence the title, but publishers of the 20th century being what they were he had to. The author was a Brahmin caste from Calcutta in the early 20th century. The dude was relatively wealthy for the time. He later emigrated to London. His books became blacklisted in India after the Independence because he had a positive opinion of the Raj. Which had become a taboo opinion.
Just consider his circumstances. He was wealthy and grew up in a palace with mud floors. His parents were proud they could afford to have their MUD FLOORS wet and shaped daily so they were "clean." As only poor people had mud floors with grass sticking out of it. He found it odd that British WORE SHOES because how could you even feel the earth then? He documents his profound ignorance of the time and how much better literally every single thing British was compared to India. Even animals such as the donkey were entirely unknown in Calcutta at the turn of the 20th century.
For this crime he was shunned entirely in his later life.
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