Stop trying to engineer your way around trust. Technology can paper over the absence of trust, but it can’t replace it. High-trust societies win because people cooperate by default, not because systems force them to.
The world runs on trust. Trust creates prosperity and positive-sum outcomes. No trust means zero-sum games. If you’re building a small team or a society, build trust first. Everything else is downstream.
A hilarious aspect of corporate life is the performative excitement that you’re supposed to show in every group interaction and it is hilarious because everyone knows it’s fake but everyone still plays along, plus some even get upset if you don’t deliver a compelling performance.
A clear majority of #Canadians refuse to accept that their appetite for cheap goods, cheaper labour, instant gratification, and 24/7 convenience cannot be satisfied without immigrants working and living under slave-like conditions.