Trust is not the same as weakness.
It is a virtue to trust others until they give you a reason to distrust them.
A society built on virtuous individuals will thrive.
Besides, we don't have a choice. Self-sufficiency is a lie. We have to learn to rely on each other.
And there's merit to that. A free market incentivizes harmony. If you're raping and pillaging on the weekend then selling windows for your day job, eventually someone is going to answer the door with the barrel of a shotgun. But even Bitcoin can not weed out the psychopaths. There will always be desperate people, kleptocrats, narcissists. Like everything there is a happy medium and case by case judgement but myself, I would rather err on the side of skepticism-that is trustlessnes as a disposition. The people who are trustworthy and rational will recognize and appreciate the motivation of being your own protector and the people who are taken aback by it will either expose themselves or are naive enough that their judgement doesn't mean anything to me from the start.
