Every vision of blockchain-centered future society that I have encountered so far in a nutshell implies that trust between fellow humans is inherently bad, and

Every vision of blockchain-centered future society that I have encountered so far in a nutshell implies that trust between fellow humans is inherently bad, and tries to eliminate it as much as possible. I’ve met blockchain maximalists who passionately painted their vision of a future where you inherit some karma from your ancestors, increment or decrement it with every action you do in your life, and pass it on to your descendants. They seem like smart and successful people, and their passion seems genuine. However, I feel like they have made some fundamentally incompatible assumption somewhere early in their thinking process. I can never understand how could anyone see removal of trust as a feature, and their vision intuitively strikes me as incredibly dystopian. My personal take is that this all is an elaborate workaround for the fact that there are malicious actors (due to whatever reason, but mostly probably upbringing-related mental health issues and emotional/financial insecurities)—addressing that root cause will render such symptomatic treatments irrelevant; while enacting these treatments without addressing the root cause will result in much suffering.