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Acknowledging that it is a big city, and “high trust“ is a vague concept: I strongly disagree with the characterization that New York City is “the furthest thi
by orzig 4y ago
Acknowledging that it is a big city, and “high trust“ is a vague concept:
I strongly disagree with the characterization that New York City is “the furthest thing from high trust I can think of“
I have interacted with thousands of strangers there with near perfect shared understanding of basic city etiquette. That etiquette does not include warmth, and in fact the way that we have all learned it is someone being quite rude to us when we break the etiquette, but that the city functions at all suggests they are doing something right.
- yCombLinks 4y agoHigh trust isn't nearly as vague as you make it out to be, and basic etiquette is only correlated. There's lots of research in this area. Francis Fukayama published the influential book "Trust" in 1995. Some key highlights about what high trust is. 1. "The most important habits that make up cultures have little to do with how one eats one's food or combs one's hair, but with the ethical codes by which societies regular behavior". 2. "Among the cultural habits that consitute virtues ... some... in particular, reciprocal trust - emerge only in a social context". 3. "The social virtues, including honesty, reliability, cooperativeness, and a sense of duty to others ...". This is just the introduction to the ideas of trust in society and how it functions, it isn't a vague concept though.