when you expect that you’re going to run into the same people over and over again for a long time to come, it’s wise to be consistently trustworthy and helpful even if you could get an advantage in the short run by betraying someone; the long-term costs to your reputation, and the costs of making a habit of doing something that’s usually destructive, vastly outweigh any short-term advantage you could gain this one time.
Isn’t this one more of a “small-world” effect? In a big world, you’re unlikely to run into the same people over and over and one-shot dynamics become more prevalent.
Isn’t this one more of a “small-world” effect? In a big world, you’re unlikely to run into the same people over and over and one-shot dynamics become more prevalent.