100% this. The culture has shifted toward normalizing lying to such a degree that now, most people will stare you in the eye and lie to your face for the sake o

100% this. The culture has shifted toward normalizing lying to such a degree that now, most people will stare you in the eye and lie to your face for the sake of self-preservation. Low-trust is now the default, high-trust is a rare luxury. Most people are just demi-Barnum's now (and if they're not, their brain has been so utterly cooked by the spectacle that they may as well be running a scam relative to the lack of actual value they produce).