Well, it does change. There are communities that shift from “everybody knows everybody” and the social control that comes with it to a more urbanized mentality. That makes it easier to break in in such places.
And what is modern? Cars are barely 200 years old and the increased mobility makes it easier for strangers to break into far away places.
Valid point you’re making, but I’d say having to lock your doors goes back quite some time in general. As in, there being a need for it at least sometimes. There being an option for it, really.
I grew up in a house where we didn’t lock our doors. Well, our mom liked to, but she was born in the capital area and not in the quaint little village where I was born.
Still, I wouldn’t consider it a “modern problem” unless we’re talking about the Modern Era, which spanned the years 1500 to 1945. That I would say was probably quite a good time to be a burglar, with there being something worth stealing, but locks still being shit.
Locked front doors also weren’t common in my villige when my dad was a kid, but I don’t know it any other way. Could be that that changed due to population after WW2 and refugee distribution. Over the last decades it also gets more common to lock sheds
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idk about where you live but someone breaking in doesn’t seem like a modern problem to me.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Well, it does change. There are communities that shift from “everybody knows everybody” and the social control that comes with it to a more urbanized mentality. That makes it easier to break in in such places.
And what is modern? Cars are barely 200 years old and the increased mobility makes it easier for strangers to break into far away places.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Valid point you’re making, but I’d say having to lock your doors goes back quite some time in general. As in, there being a need for it at least sometimes. There being an option for it, really.
I grew up in a house where we didn’t lock our doors. Well, our mom liked to, but she was born in the capital area and not in the quaint little village where I was born.
Still, I wouldn’t consider it a “modern problem” unless we’re talking about the Modern Era, which spanned the years 1500 to 1945. That I would say was probably quite a good time to be a burglar, with there being something worth stealing, but locks still being shit.
Lindybeige has a video where he talks about this. “Locks and the bigger society.”, worth a watch I’d say. (<4min)
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Locked front doors also weren’t common in my villige when my dad was a kid, but I don’t know it any other way. Could be that that changed due to population after WW2 and refugee distribution. Over the last decades it also gets more common to lock sheds
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The domestication and selective breeding of ridable horses happened at the same time when fortified settlements came into existence.