I think this is why it is problematic these days. Trust in simple terms would be trusting your local community but not the 'outside' world. But now we're trying to make the whole world one community, so who to distrust? Everyone, because you don't actually really know many people at all 'inside' your community. Everyone is inside and outside at once.

It feels like blockchain is trying to be a solution for the 'global community' that can't trust itself, but will never solve that problem because it's inherently an unsolvable utopian dream.

Isn’t it fundamentally an artifact of scarcity? What if with technological advances in automation and energy sources humanity were approaching a world without it?