True, if you behave honourably people think you're a sucker.
Low trust starts to manifest in many forms like harming reputation, ad hominem etc
it’s already too late.
this is how low trust takes over.
you build a system where behaving honorably increasingly means being the sucker, so even people who don’t want to cheat eventually learn to defect.
once enough people adapt, you can’t simply force the old norms and values back into existence.
being honorable and having integrity already puts you at a disadvantage. we’ve crossed the threshold.
More dysfunction, more corruption, more workarounds, forever, until it’s a global South Africa and the only thing that makes the system work is bribes.