Trust should be a by-product of good institutions, not their precondition

Evidence

Indeed, some amount of trust must be present in any complex economic system, and it is far from inconceivable that systems with a higher level of general trust could come about. It would be risky, however, to make higher levels of trust into a cornerstone of economic reform. We may hope that trust will come about as the by-product of a good economic system (and thus make the system even better), but one would be putting the cart before the horse were one to bank on trust, solidarity and altruism as the preconditions for reform. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2773

Categorization

• XREF: Cuts directly against Luhmann’s view of familiarity as the baseline enabling systems — trust as by-product vs. trust as precondition. — connects to: Cooperation is broader than trust and mostly grounded in institutions, not trust.; Institutions substitute for trust by securing trustworthiness coercively.; Institutions enabling safe cooperation must precede trustworthiness, which precedes trust (+10 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2773

Broader Connections

• Trust is a result rather than a precondition of cooperation #corroborates (0.95) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2781
• Well-established institutions make trust unobtrusive; unsettled ones demand urgent trust #expands (0.80)
• Trust presupposes a structured environment supplied by the existence of other systems. #qualifies (0.72)