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Let us assume a person cannot change society, they simply do not have the leverage, even if they are a billionaire or most politicians. This is a systems problem, requiring enormous investment of time and resources to change trajectories of. Therefore, the choices available are to continue to live in a low trust society, or move to a high trust society and minimize your exposure to low trust society impact on your life. It's unfortunate. I would very much like to be wrong, please correct me if I am mistaken.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-people-trust-e...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/self-reported-trust-attit...

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This data conflicts with my image of Japan and China, and I wonder where the discrepancy lies.

I cannot speak to China, but my recent personal experience is that Japan is high trust throughout Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. Would love to hear about the trust situation in China from anywhere who has recent ground truth.

The propagandised idea that living in China means living under an oppressive communist regime, runs counter to the countries wild success at pretty much everything it does.

Hey, remember Naomi Wu? She used to post a lot here. I wonder whatever happened to her?

Good point. We can always point to Naomi Wu as an real life example of why China is NOT living in the future. She is a good example of why we would never want to replicate what China is doing

I don't think success directly translates into high trust.

I think of China as a hypercompetitive place, which to me should mean lower trust.

Explain why hyper competitiveness should mean lower trust?

Doesn’t competition imply rule and order?

The other direction is merely organised crime, which tends to have very few big players.

"Doesn’t competition imply rule and order?"

What? No, how have you formulated that?