Well-founded trust is a construct to build, reproduce, and repair, seldom achieved

Evidence

Locke did not expect well-founded trust to be actualized at all frequently even in an essentially legitimate political society. But he thought that in political communities which were fortunate enough to be essentially legitimate the problems of political agency for all socially and politically active groups were always problems of how best to construct, reproduce, or repair structures of well-founded mutual trust. Even in political units which were far from being legitimate he supposed that all socially and politically active groups whose aims were not intrinsically malign had reason to do their best to establish structures of well-founded trust — at least at reasonable risk to themselves and in so far as they stood any reasonable chance of success. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1237

Categorization

• XREF: Locks onto the reader’s thesis that trust is constructed under observable constraints — the ‘construct, reproduce, repair’ framing is the mechanism glossing Hardin’s encapsulated-interest model.
• SEED: Potential essay angle: ‘Trust as maintenance work’ — why the most productive framing treats trust as ongoing repair rather than possession, applicable to Saramago’s collapsing order.