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
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)
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
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