As a pleb, when I look at the history of governments and central banks I see a system of broken trust. I see a system that doesn't trust the pleb but requires that the pleb trust the politician, bureaucrat, and banker. I see a society where moral rot fueled by short term dog eat dog thinking has destroyed the trust that was once something that separated western democracies from eastern authoritarian communist states. The elite class and their theft from the plebs have created a culture where we have to have trust minimized systems. If we don't build them we will never be free. We will never get out from under the boot of the elite.

The world my parents grew up in indeed was full of more trusting people. It wasn't bitcoin that changed that. It was the system of control we have been living under. People that live under authoritarian governments do not trust them. I believe one reason trust is rare is because trust is so rarely earned. We are slowly wising up.

Just one pleb's opinion.