Trust is a wonderful thing, and under-appreciated in greasing the economic wheels. A mini-thread. 1/n

Yesterday we bought a car in Norway, but didn’t actually pay until today. Or rather, yesterday we *acquired* a car, but because of some logistical issues we didn’t actually pay for it until today. But the seller was fine with us picking it up even though no payment was made yet.

Over the same 24 hours I received three scam calls on my US mobile. Ive never lives in a country with so much routine daily grift - whether calls, emails etc - and it seems to be increasing in frequency.