Low trust plus immobile society yields fragmentation rather than predatory organization

Evidence

Lack of trust, matched by heavy constraints on social mobility - such as in the case of the depressing village studied by Banfield (1958) — does not offer sufficient incentive to ‘specialize’ in prevailing over one’s peers, but simply leads to a deeply fragmented social world and to the reproduction of wretchedly poor economic conditions. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2153

Categorization

• SEED: A counterexample to the naive claim that distrust alone breeds organized crime — the mobility variable matters. Could be an essay on what conditions make distrust produce order vs. chaos.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”