1/ There is no social capital without impersonal institutions to store it in. Human brains can only create/use/destroy it, not store it.
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2/ Or put it another way, Gemeinschaft offers -ve interest rate on social capital store, thought it can seem +ve due to creation>destruction
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3/ Gesellschaft stores can not only offer +ve interest when well conceived, they can also support exchange to/from financial capital
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4/ But when trust in such institutions is at a historic low, financial capital stays trapped in its own world
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6/ Low trust manifests as expectations that exchange-investments from financial to social capital conform to financial capital dollar ROI
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7/ This is deeply silly. Part of the *point* of social capital is as a hedge/alternative to financial capital as a store of value
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