Trust as the mechanism of voluntary coordination at scale

We often speak of trust as something that develops over time: as a reward for reliability or a product of shared experience. And right there is the challenge that every movement for economic transformation faces: this kind of trust is intimate. It forms in small circles, between people who have shared meals. Work done in council circles, in conflict resolution processes, in transparent governance, all of this is trust-infrastructure. The architecture on which anything else can be built.

And yet the economic systems that are destroying the world operate on a planetary scale. How do we translate the deep trust of a small community into a force that can reorganize a civilization?

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