Until now we have been discussing the question of readiness to trust on supposition that the materialization of trust depends on whether a system is ready and in a position to create trust. That was the perspective of this chapter which we must at its close modify, and reveal as a variable.

XREF: This reframes the earlier assumption that trust readiness is a fixed system property, complicating the chapter's own framework. Builds on: "Trust evolves from interpersonal emotion to performance-based system trust."

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 298