Dr. Todd Rose

And ever since we implemented in the 1930s in the United States, scientific management, Frederick Taylor, this is where we got standardization to everything.

Everything became standardized.

He invented the concept of a manager.

So you just do the job I'm telling you.

You don't get any say in what you do in the name of efficiency.

Every single generation since has had lower social trust than the preceding generation.

Right now in America, we have the lowest levels of social trust ever recorded.

It's even worse in private right now than it is in public.

Now, here's the good news, though.

And this is what matters.

If I could wave a magic wand and say, what's the one thing I could change about this country besides, and again, honestly, everybody leaning in to let them and let me because the illusions would have nowhere to hide.

And we'd obviously see that we have a lot in common.

And that people trusted.

It's this illusion of trust.

Okay.

What's interesting in our data.

So when you look across the world, like Scandinavian countries have very high levels of social trust.

And you can see the cohesion, the trust in each other, the investment in each other.

You only have to get above 50% social trust for that to kick in.

When a majority of people believe a majority of people in their society are trustworthy.