Sounds very binary, I don’t see the continuum. More like a steep cliff of shocking betrayal.

In the same society, some people personally experience that others are capable of robbery & much worse within days and some learn it within decades, and everything in between. Some may never have to confront this, all within the same city/state/country.

We could represent time-to-reality on a number line.

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bombcar an hour ago | parent [-]

You can turn a low trust society into a high one by just having nothing whatsoever worth anything.

	▲	stirfish an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe. There are a lot of online games where nothing is worth anything, but I don't think those are default high-trust societies. People will log in just to annoy the other players.