In some places, people do not trust the administrator of such a program. How will they know that the administrator won't abscond with the funds or toggle off th

In some places, people do not trust the administrator of such a program. How will they know that the administrator won't abscond with the funds or toggle off the circuit breaker early? Trust, at the societal level, can take an extremely long time to build. For it to succeed, a sufficient number of people must transition from "knowing it's going to fail" to "believing it might work". An anecdote to illustrate the point: A friend served as a Peace Corps teacher in a small town. He was part of an effort to help a community effort to clear and farm a small plot of land. The night before the planned harvest, the fields were harvested by unknown actors, and the produce was available for sale all over town. Such an event can be both reasonable, "If I don't steal the food before someone else does, I won't get any at all" and patently corrosive to trust, as the event is evidence for the idea that, "collective efforts will always fail". Trust does succeed, though. It's worth the effort.