Global poverty makes it worse, because poverty makes our brains focus on short term and that means distrust.
Which, just to complete the thought, is why authoritarians love policies that keep people in poverty, even when they harm society’s economic output enough to reduce profits for the oligarchs themselves.
Which, just to complete the thought, is why authoritarians love policies that keep people in poverty, even when they harm society’s economic output enough to reduce profits for the oligarchs themselves.
Poor people are in survival mode. People in survival mode don’t act rationally and are much easier manipulated.