But my instinct is that I want to hang on to the “trust” terminology, and just hold that authoritarian cultures have an impoverished definition of trust (compared with the one I gave earlier: “letting another agent do as they wish, without trying to control their behavior, because you believe that they’ll take your interests into account”).
In that case all the major countries have ‘an impoverished definition of trust’ as they all operates huge amounts of classified programs where obedience to superiors is required and there’s no way of disobeying without incurring secret punishment.
In that case all the major countries have ‘an impoverished definition of trust’ as they all operates huge amounts of classified programs where obedience to superiors is required and there’s no way of disobeying without incurring secret punishment.