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Why is trust an indispensable yet undermined component?
To get a group to collaborate on a project, there are three solutions:
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either you demonstrate to everyone the relevance of the project
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or a part of the members decides to trust in advance
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or collaboration is imposed through hierarchical dependence or coercion (company, army, repressive state)
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Demonstrating is lengthy, or even impossible for the most complex projects, therefore trust is necessary for operational efficiency.
Imposing collaboration produces discomfort and results in poor-quality collaboration.
Obtaining trust is difficult because it requires acknowledging one's mistakes.
The world of work has developed the bad habit of dispensing with trust by relying on the economic constraint of making a living, which explains the increasing pressure to put everyone to work and the associated ideology that those who do not work are guilty slackers.
The political world has developed the bad habit of preferring extreme rhetoric, even at the expense of denying reality, so as not to recognize its mistakes, thereby progressively undermining trust. This may pay off in the short term electorally, but has a devastating long-term effect that is currently unregulated. Hence a general loss of trust leads voters, and particularly young people who are not used to it, not to vote.
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See the question 'Tell me how you make decisions, and I will tell you who you are' which details the variations in decision-making modes according to the individual's personality structure.