Inspired by a few other posts and memes flying about. When I was young movies and tbh real life you would come across old people telling you that can’t trust the gov. To keep your cash at home etc. tell em nothing.
I am feeling it. I always assumed maybe about 60 it will happen to me. I kinda linked it to idle minds or a cognitive decline but lack of trust for me has arrived a lot earlier and I think I can rationalise to myself it’s more based on the gov actions rather than my circumstances.
So wha do you think in the magic age number that trust in the gov erodes? I’ll start. 42.
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I trust some parts of government to be useful. Like food assistance or healthcare are useful and should be expanded. I don’t trust that politicians will keep the useful parts useful though. Also gotta keep this in mind.
I don’t honestly believe such a number exists, but also, I think the age aspect of it is almost or entirely irrelevant.
I think it depends on the trustworthiness of your government. Even then, it’s a scale that slides depending on the situation. I’m in my 70s and feel my government is going through a very solid stage right now. My trust level is at one of the highest level.
I was raised to trust neither the government nor law enforcement.
Good.
I was around 10.
Don’t trust what politicians say, watch what they do. They are remarkably consistent then.
I was never raised to trust the government in the first place.
I think I was around 13, but I’m also quite a few years younger in general. I have the feeling that especially gen z started to get political at younger ages than recent older generations, maybe due to growing up with access to so much information.
I would have said around 15-16, but I think it’s also important to note that there are many degrees of trust between blindly trusting everything the government does and becoming some kind of “sovereign citizen”.
I believe the government often doesn’t act in the people’s best interest and that many politicians are fundamentally corrupt. I do believe our institutions mostly manage to uphold our constitution though, and that my country has a functioning democracy. I don’t keep all my money in cash at home, that seems both paranoid and unsafe.
That’s a good point. What is the line? I think for me it is two things.
The voicing. Saying to others I do not trust them - usually followed by discourse and reasoning/grassroots activism
Taking steps to protects yourself/or obscure - for example starting to use cash or taking steps to avoid being surveilled.
I sound like my dad…keep ya cash close and tell em nothing
It would help if you specified which government.
At this stage I would be surprised if there is a common majority of any countries gov…which do you think can be trusted?
I think trust in government is generally really high here in Scandinavia
This depends a lot on where you live, under what kind of government, your socioeconomic background and the personality of your close friends and family.
I grew up in Argentina and I don’t think anyone believes they can really trust the government. Consensus among high school kids is that everyone is corrupt and exploiting legal loopholes is considered the norm.
Now I can’t say there was much of a privacy concern in my circles, in my experience, and that’s still the case today, decades later, in a totally different country. So yeah it depends a lot on a lot.
Not necessarily stop trusting it, but realize they’re either corrupt or incompetent… Or worse, both. Also, 35…
I never truly trusted the government 100% from when i was a teenager. I get that we need a government to ensure “things work” and they need us to “turn the gears”, but that’s as far as it goes. They aint looking out for you
At what advanced age do you start?
I probably stopped trusting it when I was a 16 year old libertarian.
