@DonChed54 Can’t have Watt, Ramsey, Highsmith, Herbig, Queen, Heyward, Benton, and Porter all making big $ on the Defense.
Have to trade or cut someone in that list.
When you watch old videos of high-trust societies, you notice how little coercive infrastructure they needed. Here, one elderly policeman was enough because shared norms, reputation, shame, and neighbors willing to intervene maintained order.
As trust declines, informal social control collapses and ordinary cooperation must be monitored and enforced. That invisible social infrastructure is replaced by an authoritarian state apparatus and private controls, such as more police, cameras, locks, barriers, contracts, rules, paperwork, verification, and surveillance.