1. El colapso de la confianza institucional y el auge de la corrupción.
Las instituciones democráticas y gubernamentales enfrentan una crisis de legitimidad sin precedentes, impulsada por la percepción de corrupción, desigualdad y falta de rendición de cuentas.
- Trust as been eroded in our societies by corruption. Common people no longer trust institutions that our societies were built on.
- The bottom line problem in the United States and in western nations around the world is that we do not trust our governments anymore.
- When public money meets private connections without track record or transparency, trust erodes fast.
2. Las consecuencias de una sociedad de baja confianza.
La transición hacia entornos de baja o nula confianza fomenta el individualismo extremo, el cinismo, las teorías de conspiración y la justificación de conductas antisociales.
- The transition from a low trust society to a zero trust society is not going to go very well. And were told this is progress.
- Low-trust societies are also a sustainable, worse equlibrium.
- Erosion of trust in democratic institutions seems to be increasing worldwide. First step towards growth of autocracies.
3. El debate sobre el impacto económico y el comportamiento antisocial.
Existe una tensión constante entre quienes ven el robo menor como un síntoma de la desesperación económica y quienes advierten que destruye el tejido social necesario para el funcionamiento colectivo.
- Cant see that social trust has been dead for the average American prole, for a long time, and neo-liberal capitalism killed it, and ushered in the need to shoplift to stay afloat, in the first place.
- Even petty theft destroys social trust and feeds the fascist project.
- High trust when it comes to thieving business owners. But low to no trust when it comes to poor people.
4. Caminos hacia la reconstrucción de la confianza y la cohesión.
Restaurar la confianza requiere un cambio estructural profundo centrado en la transparencia, la rendición de cuentas real, la reducción de la desigualdad y el fortalecimiento de los lazos comunitarios.
- Trust is necessary for social cohesion and you cannot trust anyone if there is no accountability.
- You dont rebuild trust with a new leader. You rebuild it with new behaviors. Trust returns only when people consistently see accountability applied fairly and transparently.
- We recovered trust not by asking the people to trust the government but by telling the government to trust the people.