"The greatest danger of having lived for so long in a very high-trust society of people with low time preferences (ability to delay immediate gratification for long-term gain) is...

...is that you lose the ability to imagine how low-trust people with high time preferences behave.  - el gato malo@boriquagato

• "The greatest danger of having lived for so long in a very high-trust society of people with low time preferences (ability to delay immediate gratification for long-term gain) is 
• that you lose the ability to imagine how low-trust people with high time preferences behave. 

You assume that if you invite them into your system that they will act as you do. 

Instead they act as they always have. accommodation is seen as weakness to be taken advantage of, and the harder you try to be nice or lenient, the more aggressive the depredations become. 

• It's a fundamental misapprehension of mindset and a desperately expensive luxury belief.