Comment by TeMPOraL

> That human society exists is proof that people are, or act, mostly, "good", over the long term.

That's very true. It's worth noting that various legal and security tools deployed by the society help us understand what are the real limits to "mostly".

So for example, the cryptocurrency crowd is very misguided in their pursuit of replacing trust with math - trust is the trick, the big performance hack, that allowed us to form functioning societies without burning ridiculous amounts of energy to achieve consensus. On the other hand, projects like Linux kernel, which play a core role in modern economy, cannot rely on assumption of benevolence alone - incentives for malicious parties to try and mess with them are too great to ignore.