As usual the pudding.cool data visualisations are terrific.
Social trust is critical for us to tackle some of the biggest problems ahead of us: the erosion of democracy, the emergence of Al, our warming planet, and more.
In a 2021 study, researchers looked at why social trust has decreased on an individual level. What they found was that income dissatisfaction, our experience of losing a job, and our decreasing confidence in political institutions account for most of the decline in trust. In short, we've created a world that is precarious and unstable for most people.
I feel this, too. I'm scared by the big and small things happening in our world. I feel my environment crumbling around me, my sense of safety waning. I've looked at homes for sale in remote areas where I can disappear with my friends and family-where I don't have to rely on strangers.