it has been a stunning journey to witness! And its exciting to feel the hivian society maturing year by year.
Interesting topic about social capital.... I guess it is the development of trust alongside the trustlessness that eventually forms a stable web3 society. And each individual account has the sovereign task of generating that trust through their words and actions on chain. I just edited the word account in there, because of course, an individual person could easily operate a trustworthy account with a high reputation alongside many bad acting accounts if they chose to do so.... but its the actions of that single account that become a trustworthy ledger as opposed to the human being (or bot) behind it. Its like having a business front that you feel you can trust except that all of their transactions can be traced and so there is less chance of fraudulent or underhand activity going unnoticed.
This eventually forms a 'high street' of trustworthy brands that act as our 'town center'. But the commodity that is being peddled is so much richer and more complex than what you might receive in a high street shop because it is a constantly evolving ideological trajectory shared by both parties via this mutually supportive trustless trust relationship.
weird.
I never thought I would be part of such a peculiar revolution!