# kaal:claim:3808867-010

**Claim.** Legally created trust is limited because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, and is therefore arbitrary, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, dependent on fallible human centric decision processes, and confined to human speed.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- trust created by legal guarantees and judicial enforcement in capitalist and socialist systems

**Source quote.**

> Legally created trust is often limited as it can be arbitrary because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, with fallible human-centric decision processes, and human speed.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI* (2021), II. Decentralism Transcends Capitalism and Socialism, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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**Failure mode.** Limits of legally created trust  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** reputation, law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** trust, legal-system, legitimacy, machine-speed

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-014

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