Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Not your best pissart, I must confess.
They just want to be immune from criticism.
yeah! and you could leave your back door open and let your kids play in the woods at midnight without any fear. everyone was living happily ever after.It's an interesting one isn't it. Like my train station supervisor said, people used to borrow things from one another. One set of ladders, one pair of garden shears, was enough for the whole street.
Now we all have to buy our own things. We don't really lend one another stuff anymore. And that lending process I think can engender trust.
Reprogramming yourself is a fascinating exercise. The urge to share is most insistent when I’m alone, prompting the horrific realisation that somewhere along the way, my brain has been trained to process reality through an audienceThere's a short article in The Guardian at the moment with a writer discussing her newfound appreciation for privacy after a lifetime of oversharing on social media.
Wonder whether there's a change in the air.
it's also i think coz the price of material goods is so low now. it's another one of those medium-sized social changes that goes a bit unnoticed i think. stuff is really cheapIt's an interesting one isn't it. Like my train station supervisor said, people used to borrow things from one another. One set of ladders, one pair of garden shears, was enough for the whole street.
Now we all have to buy our own things. We don't really lend one another stuff anymore. And that lending process I think can engender trust.
Digital is infinitely copyable, but we have to manufacture a way to make it scarce, so there's a business model, but it's total bullshit cos no one owns anything.
Enter web3, where, if anything, we will err in the opposite direction.Digital is infinitely copyable, but we have to manufacture a way to make it scarce, so there's a business model, but it's total bullshit cos no one owns anything.
The Byung-Chul Han interview I've posted in 'Dematerialisation' covers a fair few recent topics on here;
"I think trust is a social practice, and today it is being replaced by transparency and information. Trust enables us to build positive relationships with others, despite lacking knowledge. In a transparency society, one immediately asks for information from others. Trust as a social practice becomes superfluous. The transparency and information society fosters a society of distrust."
Dan Davies on fraud is a must here.If/when cryptocurrency becomes more mainstream, these dynamics of trust will be impacted even more. The whole protocol erases the need for counterparty trust, and largely erases the need for trust in supervisory human institutions, hence the term "trustless" system.
Which is the bigger problem, financial fraud or living in a low-trust society?High-trust nations (e.g. Canada) have the highest rates of financial fraud, low-trust nations (e.g. Greece) the lowest.
Living in a low-trust society, because you can't do business with anyone who isn't family/good friendsWhich is the bigger problem, financial fraud or living in a low-trust society?