Collaboration has been the bedrock of human civilization. Human beings dominate the world because of our ability to work in groups. Cultures where people collaborate better prosper.
Human beings invented legal and social contracts to lay down the rules of collaboration. But legal contracts only go so far when relationships need to go beyond transactions. It is only a race between society’s ways of enforcing reputation/status and the participants trying to outsmart these markers.
Although we move full-speed towards trustless global transactions, small groups of high integrity people have outachieved the non-collaborative.
The case is clear. Groups with high trust and integrity achieve a lot more.
It takes time to curate such groups but many individuals, organisations and mission-driven groups will start being accessible only to those with high integrity.
Because in the information era, knowledge, skill, and experience can be gained. Integrity is the only critical variable that matters and acts as a great filter.