Liberalism overestimates individual choice and neglects the baseline confidence systems require.

Evidence

Seen from this point of view, political and economic liberalism attempts to shift expectations from confidence to trust. Insisting on freedom of choice, liberalism focuses on the individual responsibility for deciding between trust and distrust with respect to politicians, parties, goods, firms, employees, credit, etc. And it neglects the problems of attribution and the large amount of confidence required for participation in the system. Mobilizing trust means mobilizing engagements and activities, extending the range and degree of participation. But what does this mean, if people do not perceive a condition of trust or distrust but a condition of unavoidable confidence? They will not save and invest if they lack trust; they will feel alienated if they lack confidence. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1386

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘unavoidable confidence’ people feel toward money parallels the doctor’s wife’s situation and ordinary citizens’ taken-for-granted trust in institutions that Saramago’s blindness destroys. — connects to: Voting for the least-worst candidate legitimizes the system that creates the limited choice. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1390