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the bridge you build for years and burn in a single afternoon
means the firm belief that someone or something is reliable, honest, or safe — and the willingness to rely on them because of it
from From Old Norse 'traust,' meaning confidence or firmness, a cousin of words for 'strong' and 'true' — the same family that gives us 'tree' and German 'treu' (faithful). The thread that runs through all of them is the image of something solid enough to lean on: a sturdy trunk, a thing that holds. To trust someone was, at root, to treat them as load-bearing.
- brain chemistry
- oxytocin rises when you decide to trust someone
- economic glue
- high-trust societies grow richer with fewer contracts
- game theory
- tit-for-tat beats every strategy by trusting first
- asymmetry
- earned in drops, lost in buckets
- legal ghost
- a trust can own property without being a person
edsa revolution — 1986 philippine uprising where citizens trusted military defectors, toppled marcos regime
bridge to terabithia — children's novel where friendship trust enables imaginary kingdom creation
panama papers — 2016 leak exposed how trust in offshore secrecy enabled $21 trillion hidden wealth