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plenty of ex-civs had techdoomers who were right. When tevh doomers have no salient points to make, its fair to not listen, but this time around i think something is different to historic doomerism.

Trust is a fundamental thing, and i cannot fathom how a post-trust society could possibly host life as we know it. Life ad we know it comes from systemic efficiencies that are rooted in trust, requiring it deeply. no trust means extreme loss in system efficiency, in a system already creaking under the straign of supporting current populations.

post trust is in my reakoning a serious issue to engage with.

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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

right, 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.

> 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

Which ones are those? Sweden?

Be 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

Isn’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?

No, I mean low-trust societies. I don't know if a low-trust society can be first-world because it prevents value creation.

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