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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @billytheked 3h \ parent \ on: Are we (in the US) in a low trust society or just transitioning from high trust? bitcoin
Its hard for me to think about how trust in society (or trust between people in communities) would be affected by bitcoin adoption.
I generally think that higher trust exists in smaller communities. I think the coordination advantages of living among fewer people is probably related. Also, the cooperation needed to maintain these communities -- absent the desire or ability to defer, as a default, all problems to a higher authority -- probably helps.
You cannot trust a society... only its individual members. Society is just a concept, a group of people, but every of those people are very different individuals, even that they form a common goal in something.
You cannot say "I trust X" and because X trusted Y and Z "I also trust 100 of X". That's stupid and is not trust, is just blind following, like sheeps.
Trust is bond earned very hard between individuals, not fictitious entities.
Trust a society is like saying I trust all SN as a community. That is plain stupid. You cannot know very well and build a trust relation with somebody from a society that you don't know who is a member or what they do.
I trust NOBODY online, even that are 2 stackers here on SN that knows me in real life.
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