this is how a high-trust society devolve into a low trust society. It's quite alarming, and it seems to me, that nothing is being done to reverse it.

By the time the "regular" people feel it (ala, the rich people), the problem may be irreversible.

What are you doing about it? Let's start now.

> By the time the "regular" people feel it (ala, the rich people), the problem may be irreversible.

I think they definitely feel it. You can see it here on HN. You can see it everyone resigning, in the vogue of despairing and not caring.