Interpersonal trust is like the strong nuclear force. It only extends to 1-2 transitive degrees defining a "nuclear" family of sorts. Impersonal institutional trust is more like gravity and not based on social graph transitivity at all.
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I don't trust people who rhapsodize uncritically about the transitivity of trust and guanxi cultures based on it. When transitive trust operates more than 2 degrees out, it does so at an exceptionally high cost, via erosion of other forms of trust, complicity bonding etc
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So, you're saying that trust works at single and dual degrees of separation, but breaks down at paucal degrees.
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I can imagine corporate branding practices & virtue capitalism clogging up the transitive trust bandwidth between individuals.




