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Trust Me (Ep. 266 Rebroadcast)

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What's the Role of Technology in Social Capital?

The netherlands had pretty similar levels of social trust in the nineteen eighties to america and the u.k. But whereas we've now drifted down toward sort of thirty odd per cent, they're now close to seventy per cent for those who think others can be trusted. David halprin says simply to look at the countries where social trust has been rising and see what they're up to. The netherlands have wrestled quite hard with the issues of obnoxious inequality but also a deep culture of trustworthy people....

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