anon 0x416 said in #2463 2mo ago:
(https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/calvinism-as-a-theory-of-recovered-high-trust-agency)
Very good essay on Calvinism as a jump to a higher trust regime. Feels similar to the project of sofiechan.
> Here's a rough explanatory model for why modern joint stock ventures, physical science, and medical science all seem to suddenly explode in the Calvinist areas. The Roman church held onto power on the basis of suppressing trust, and selling a simulacrum of trust. Under this regime, know-how and the sorts of relationships that formed the basis for mundane trust among the middle class gradually accumulated. A great number of smallholders became moderately wealthy by prudent management of their property and reputation-based trade. This gradually increased the potential returns to higher-trust relationships, until the printing press allowed a sufficient group of people to coordinate to jump to a higher-trust regime, suddenly breaking the latent tension.
> Here's a rough explanatory model for why modern joint stock ventures, physical science, and medical science all seem to suddenly explode in the Calvinist areas. The Roman church held onto power on the basis of suppressing trust, and selling a simulacrum of trust. Under this regime, know-how and the sorts of relationships that formed the basis for mundane trust among the middle class gradually accumulated. A great number of smallholders became moderately wealthy by prudent management of their property and reputation-based trade. This gradually increased the potential returns to higher-trust relationships, until the printing press allowed a sufficient group of people to coordinate to jump to a higher-trust regime, suddenly breaking the latent tension.
Very good essay on C