I have argued that impersonal trust permits complex developments in social organization and exchange that create distinctive opportunities for abuse. These are responded to by new social-control strategies that unfortunately share some of the same structural properties as the original developments. Therefore, similar opportunities for violation emerge and stimulate new social-control measures that contain the structural seeds of further deviance. And so on. The paper exposes an inflationary spiral of escalating trust relationships and the paradox that the more we control the institution of trust, the more dissatisfied we will be with its offerings.

QUESTION: This 'inflationary spiral' is a compelling mechanism worth exploring — how far does the escalation go before it destabilizes the entire trust institution?

Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Imper…, loc. 145