[ashanoko]

Trust is a tax , which is low in high thrust societies and high in low thrust societies. All you archieve there costs more, more surveilance, more stress , more guards, more fraud in science, products, services. It naturally appeals to the paranoid subset of society which wants to sell itself as a protector service.

[throwaway48476]

Current economic prosperity is coasting on the effects of high trust society. When the trust tax increases the economy reverts like in South Africa.