Alternate explanation coming from a person whose high intelligence is at the level that is, arguably, a curse. There's trust in competence and trust in charact

Alternate explanation coming from a person whose high intelligence is at the level that is, arguably, a curse. There's trust in competence and trust in character. They're different (highly intelligent and competent people can have rotten ethical character) but people tend to conflate them, especially in the business world. We have a hard time believing that visibly competent or "credible" people might be liars. Highly intelligent people are constantly being underestimated because they live in a world that's not really designed for them. There are all sorts of permissions systems and rules and rate-limits on career progress designed for people much slower and less capable than they are. The conclusion is that those systems and the prevailing distrust they represent is useless and counterproductive. Knowing that they don't belong in the harnesses designed for "the slow kids", highly intelligent people tend to assume that everyone deserves more trust than they are given by society. It isn't just a personal problem ("I'm too smart to be treated like a child") but a general one ("Who needs rules? Who needs management at all?") This biases them toward premature trust of others.