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Power eventually turns a high trust society into a low trust society when that power is used to one’s own advantage.

I agree, which is why we're so careful about this - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732846 elsewhere in this thread for what I mean by that.

Community goodwill is the only value HN has, so we take our lumps when we have to, rather than jeopardize that.