Socially extensive and enduring trust is inherently difficult to create

Evidence

There are at least three reasons to believe that a socially extensive and enduring trust is not an easy thing to create. The first of these is clear in Bernard Williams’s contribution to this volume. Williams distinguishes a class of what he calls ‘micro’ motives which are ‘non-egoistic’. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1499

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1499
• XREF: connects to: Iterated ongoing relationships are the largest source of trust in ordinary life.; Loose social conventions undermine our capacity to make credible long-term commitments; Thick trust cannot extend beyond small groups except via mystified elite authority — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 219 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Socially extensive trust requires an aristocracy to create it, which then undermines it #expands (0.78)
• Moral trust requires temporally stable social contexts to operate #expands (0.78)
• Trust requires time for repeated interactions and is a cognitive capacity #expands (0.75)
• Growing social complexity increases the need for trust in the present #complicates (0.72)
• Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle #complicates (0.72)
• Social complexity forces the shift from personal to impersonal, system-governed trust. #qualifies (0.72)
• Trustworthiness precedes and enables societal complexity #complicates (0.72) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 683
• Mutual trust cannot develop in unequal, nonreciprocal power relations #complicates (0.72) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 477
• Trust reduces the truster’s complexity while transferring that burden onto the trusted #expands (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 245
• Trust requires both freedom to defect and constraints that make cooperation attractive #expands (0.70)
• Trust as passion can rest on either close familiarity or massive social distance #expands (0.70) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1068