Conjecture: there is a decent (though not perfect) correlation between how well an industry/area/etc is doing, and how nice the median person in the area is
My guess at the reason for this is that people tend to be nicer when they are in environments of relative abundance, that feel positive-sum: on average, helping a stranger will be good for myself at some point
When people sense that growth is slowing down, there is not enough for everyone, perhaps the aggregate mentality shifts to be more zero-sum: my neighbor is generically my competitor, and helping them will tend to hurt myself slightly on average
Thinking of this because what struck me, around ~2 years ago in crypto space, was how nice and open everyone seemed to be. I think on average it is still a nice space, but the % of nasty trolls seems to be increasing slightly
Signal-boosting @tszzl's point. I'm skeptical of the hypothesis to begin with, but it's quite interesting. Also simple to look at this in the data: regress "social trust" measures on house price/income ratios, perhaps using Saiz instruments
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1419449591091449857
@tszzl Building on this idea a bit, one could construct measures of "land associated inequality". Difference between net worth of ppl owning houses and ppl renting. Try and simply horse-race total inequality with landed inequality in explaining social trust, see which wins
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