Here’s a life hack: If you’re always on the lookout, you can often find ways to rip off other people or take stuff that doesn’t belong to you, and not get caught.

Such is the wisdom dispensed by influencers on TikTok these days, and it’s darkly fitting amid the current crime wave. People have no compunction getting away with whatever they can, and they find that in a high-trust society, you get away with a lot. The result is that we become a low-trust society.