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There are plenty of low-trust societies. They have things like armed security guards and barbed wire fences outside every apartment complex. Coughsouthafrica
by mitxela 2mo ago
There are plenty of low-trust societies. They have things like armed security guards and barbed wire fences outside every apartment complex. Coughsouthafrica
- Grimblewald 2mo agoright, but that surive in isolation, heard immunity to collapse so to speak, but globe wide? pandemonium. we're back to fiefdoms and warring city-states in a generation.
- bluefirebrand 2mo ago> There are plenty of low-trust societies And high trust societies have spent the past two decades importing tons of H1B style workers from many of the lower trust countries
- mitxela 2mo agoWhich ones are those? Sweden?
- bluefirebrand 2mo agoBe snotty about it if you want but I didn't invent the term "low trust society", it's a pretty accepted term in social psychology from what I can tell And based on that, countries like India, Pakistan, Phillipines, Nigeria, Syria all quality as "low to very low trust", and they also represent some of the highest numbers of immigration to many countries right now. A full 30% of immigrants to Canada over the past 5 years are from India, for example. I don't think it is that unreasonable of me to suggest that people from low trust societies bring low trust behavior with them. Which does not imply they are untrustworthy people by the way. It does imply a different set of expectations and public behaviors though, which often chafe with their new country
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- mock-possum 2mo agoIsn’t “low trust society” just the latest racist dog whistle though? When you say ‘low-trust society’ don’t you just mean the third world, populated by brown people? Or are there examples of first world white low trust societies?
- mitxela 2mo agoNo, I mean low-trust societies. I don't know if a low-trust society can be first-world because it prevents value creation.