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Re:‘Intelligent people are more likely to trust others’ by davidw on Monday March 17, 2014 @07:23AM (#7414389)
Trust is required for a complex economy. Think if you had to verify everything each and every time you exchanged something. You simply wouldn't get anywhere.
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Re:‘Intelligent people are more likely to trust others’ by efkztw on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:31AM (#7415190)
So by extension, it's probably fair to say intelligent people are more inclined to trust other people, because they understand distrust is intrinsically costly.
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