Malika bazaar and Tit for Tat
Saw this statistics yesterday, in simple words: less income, higher mistrust between people in country. Higher mistrust means no reliablity, people don't trust and rely on each other. Sounds like a boring topic from sociology textbooks, but trust between each other shapes our reality. Your parents make you sit with plumbers, because they're afraid that the plumber may steal something. You call your friend doctor to verify if doctor from the hospital gave you the receipt of medicine, or if he's scamming you so you buy expensive medicine from the nearby store. You try to call your шустрый friend when you go to Malika, because you sellers at Malika may scam you. You count your cash in front of the person who gave it to you.
Mistrust between each other makes us more independent, but also separates us, because the moment you feel someone not trusting, you stop trusting them as well. People start doing business only with their family, they try to avoid taxes because are not sure if taxes are going to the right place (which later results in lower social packages, salaries, and lower income overall), they stop believing each other, and you can't do something big when you're alone and other don't trust you. Social mistrust It's like a pyramid, everyone stands on each other, and this pyramid just swamps us into separation. We can't unite and have one central opinion, or at least an agreement that we can't have one opinion.
So what to do? Trust, ofc. There's this model in game theory called Tit for Tat, it's when one side (me, for example) mirrors the opposite side (Va'dabek). If I don't trust Va'dabek, Va'dabek won't trust me, Tit for Tat in action. Tit for Tat is a stable strategy, because you know what to expect from the opposing side and you're prepared for their answer. But there's another model called Generous tit for tat. It's same mirroring strategy, but with a probability of forgiving the opposing side, while the original Tit for Tat doesn't have a probability of forgiving opposite's action. So if in Tit for Tat I was just mirroring Va'dabek, in Generous Tit for Tat I can forgive Va'dabek for his behaviour, which can lead to two outcomes:
A. Va'dabek will accept my trust, and will start mirroring me
B. Va'dabek won't accept my trust, and will keep mistrusting me.
Outcome A is the best, because now both sides are mirroring only positive, while Outcome B did not change much, because if your trust was not mutual you can go back to mistrusting each other. And statistically, Generous Tit for Tat is more productive than simple Tit for Tat.
So overall, it's in our hands to break the pyramid of mistrust between each other, it just takes one Generous Tit for Tat to change the game. nothing changes if nothing changes.
so yeah
