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Originally Posted by GGG
I find the trust in business interesting and want to read more over the type of questions being asked. Is it because we expect businesses to behave in self interested manner and therefore relative to expectations they become trustworthy?
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That appears to be a big part of it. It looks like one of the questions they use in building their "trust" profile is if the institution does what they do well.
It's easy to say Coca-Cola does what it does well because what it does is sell massive amounts of carbonated sugar water and it's been doing that for well over a century. It's a lot harder to say the government is doing what it does well because the government does so much more and some of the things it does aren't necessarily going to be popular, like taxation.
They're not terribly transparent with their methodology. Also, keep in mind, this is a report from a PR company that sells its services to some of the worst companies trying to clean up their public perception. So, it's in their best interest to say people "trust" businesses more than they "trust" government.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
So, being a theocratic authoritarian reflects well on the people. Plato would be stoked with this result.
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It certainly impacts what people are willing to say about their government to complete strangers who ask them about the government. It's a good reason to take these sorts of reports with a grain of salt.