Why Status, Money, and Trust All Run on the Same Code
This essay was sparked by Max Meursault’s piece on The Game Theory of Social Trust. Short, sharp and worth reading first. The cycle he maps:
Low Trust creates Skeptics which creates High Trust which creates Liars which create Low Trust
In trying to answer the questions he raised, I went further upstream. What actually generates the trust in the first place?
In this essay, you will understand:
- Why your detailed Iron Man drawing gets 3 likes on Facebook while someone sells a dot that looks like dog poop for $2 million
- Why the cold DM closes less than you think, and what actually works
- How to get the girl, get the governor to know you, get the deal — using the same mechanism
- Why Rome fell, why some currencies keep dying, and what either has to do with your career
- How MrBeast became the biggest creator on earth
Everything...
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