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I don't think it would be close. We've chosen to build our entire civilization on intentional lies and deception between one another, and even encouraged to within ourselves, at every level. Lies many of us even roll our eyes at knowing they're lies but just resigned to going through the motions of hearing and speaking.
We are trained to cope, shut up about our problems, and make the owners money while they lie about it trickling down, and if family life or obligations are making that harder, no they're not or you're a lazy piece of shit in this grotesque civilization's eyes.
I still find trust as the underlying mechanism of day to day interactions. My boss can tell me that the embedded machines in the fuel islands need to be updated and when I say I will do it he trusts that it will get done. I will agree that all our higher forms of labor and finances operates on deception tbough. But that gas an abstracted layer above normal day to day conversation and interactions for most people.
Are you a family though? Is how you make money for your boss so well representative of your character as they claim? In almost all cases, and moreso the larger the business, there is a different, expected dialect meant to obfuscate the purely transactional nature of your presence there, increase productivity without commensurate compensation increase, minimize the cruelty of employer's unrealistic expectations and orders, and restrict employee expression of dissatisfaction, expectation, negative affect or emotion.
The shiny, happy stepford language. Some actually come to internalize it as they actually try to play the rigged game, poor bastards.
I'm simply stating that if deception were the core of human communication we eould have never built civilization in the first place. The fact that it is still mostly operating shows that most people still operate on truth as their core communication tenant. Otherwise if I ordered a burger at a restaurant the staff would actually have to deduce I wanted a salad.