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Trust's interconnected structure makes it fragile across whole systems

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tags	ja-picks, xref, causal_relationships, trade, singleton, category/causal-relationships
aliases	@gambetta_trust_1988, loc. 781

Sep 20, 20261 min read

Trust’s interconnected structure makes it fragile across whole systems

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It is this interconnectedness which makes trust such a fragile commodity. If it erodes in any part of the mosaic it brings down an awful lot with it. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 781

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XREF: Fragility of the trust mosaic maps onto the reader’s blindness-collapse scenario: when observability erodes in one part, the whole social order follows.

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Trust’s interconnected structure makes it fragile across whole systems
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Anarchism's defining weakness is its capricious account of trust's incidence
Confidence and trust can decline together in a spiraling deterioration
Honourable motives alone cannot sustain reliable trust
Relying on collective trustworthiness is a collective, not merely individual, problem.
Socially extensive trust requires an aristocracy to create it, which then undermines it
Trust alone cannot explain modern social order.
Trust cannot be eliminated from ongoing economic relations.
Trust cannot be induced at will and breaks down when instrumentality is detected
Trust flourishes most where neither kinship nor contract obligations apply
Trust survives widespread fraud in advanced economies
Trust-building always risks betrayal and remains a perilous undertaking.
Trustworthiness arises from many small open stages rather than single sovereign strokes
Diego Gambetta — Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations
Diego Gambetta — Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations

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Trust's interconnected structure makes it fragile across whole systems

Trust’s interconnected structure makes it fragile across whole systems

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