On the last weekend of February, Technologists and peacebuilders sipped their coffee from sustainably made wheat-based mugs at the first-ever Designing Tech for Social Cohesion conference in San Francisco.
There are at least two types of trust deficit in societies, other than distrust between ideological groups. When I expect a random big tech company to cheat me, casually harm me, etc., the problem probably isn't that they are in a different ideological group from me, unless you consider properly socialized MBAs and corporate executives to be a separate ideological group from non-MBAs. And if I and everyone I know expect most random people in the street to be selfish bastards who cheat, steal etc. whenever they can get away with it, I probably come from a low trust society.
This is where I thought the discussion would be going, rather than better communication between ideological groups.
There are at least two types of trust deficit in societies, other than distrust between ideological groups. When I expect a random big tech company to cheat me, casually harm me, etc., the problem probably isn't that they are in a different ideological group from me, unless you consider properly socialized MBAs and corporate executives to be a separate ideological group from non-MBAs. And if I and everyone I know expect most random people in the street to be selfish bastards who cheat, steal etc. whenever they can get away with it, I probably come from a low trust society.
This is where I thought the discussion would be going, rather than better communication between ideological groups.