Institutional failure is what is driving the transition towards a lower trust society in most Western countries.
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The core of it is corruption - all kinds: double-parking on street, cheating on tests, scamming welfare, political kickbacks, etc. It spreads via mimesis, b/c no one wants to be the sucker. Entertainment-media is primary vector.
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And lack of enforcement. It's real hard to care about following the law when you regularly see vagrants hopping turnstiles in front of cops, and when called for car theft, the cops say "yeah we don't bother with that stuff anymore".
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