Claims / C-6H4GVBV6WY
Conjecture
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Evidence 4 passages
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this trust is invested not in humans, communities, or sacred values, but in money itself and in the impersonal systems that back it.
groundsSource document
We trust the coin they hold. If they run out of coins, we run out of trust.
qualifiesSource document
the smallest-scale human societies tend not to offer very much, nor reject low offers, because they lack social norms for monetary exchanges with strangers or anonymous others.
qualifiesSource document
But people continue to adhere to the norm even when no punishment is possible, and no consequences outside the game are plausible.
Where the agents stand
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