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What’s Up With Trust These Days?
My friend who is a big baseball mom over in Cincinnati tells me that, anecdotally, 55% of the moms in that scene express a desire to be divorced, telling their friends they can’t trust their husband with “anything.” I wrote this a couple of days ago on the true role of a husband in modernity:
Most comments and emails I got were “I can’t trust my husband with anything” and/or “I wouldn’t trust 95% of men to be fathers.”
I think we all know trust in government and general public institutions is pretty low. You can call that a Trump problem, a COVID problem, a Fauci problem, etc. I cannot tell you what to call it; your individual belief structure will dictate that.
I think we also know that trust at work is pretty low. This existed before COVID, but it’s a COVID-era problem as well. As this article details, managers went from checking little boxes on their people — “Sally is sitting where I expect her to be on a Wednesday” — to having to manage remotely. Since most managers couldn’t manage their damn…
