In their different ways, the failures of backward linkage even in high-technology systems, the changes in agricultural practice and political affiliation in northern India, and the developmental successes of South Korea, each suggest that whatever may eventually result, a self-reinforcing and functional trust may not be able to generate itself, but may require something analogous to an 'aristocracy' to impose the initial conditions of its generation.

Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 1665