Trust in impersonal systems reduces to what individuals all do and expect

Evidence

There are some derived notions of trust; for example, I trust that the value of the pound will not fall to zero tomorrow. But this is a derived notion, since the value of the pound tomorrow depends upon what we all do, what we all expect, what we all know, and so forth. My definition covers such cases automatically. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 796

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s Luhmann interest in how trust scales beyond face-to-face interaction.