On the trust thing we agree but I don't give that much credence to how organized the criminal activity is. If you like history, you should be able to easily find patterns of how often failure happens. If it's a conspiracy it's not that well hidden - humans are terrible long term planners and short term fuck ups. We will muddle thru like we always do. Climate Crisis may put a cork in it. Humans have proven themselves pretty good in a crisis. It's in the history books - link back.