We’ll it is a very interesting view from this historian. You can also read a loose article about it.
There’s enough proof that people can be trusted. There’s all the proof in the world that nature’s laws are abundant. But we humans have built reductionist, limiting systems.
If we would be our human systems on trust and work from there, the world would be completely different. This is what we (call it regenerative movement, blue economy, biomimicry, Buckminster Fuller institute etc.) are working on.
Abundant mindset and completely different business models, technologies and institutions. Based on systemic design.