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…but is trusting random people, or worse misinformed familiars, in real life, really any better?

What is the standard for trust in the modern era?

On occasion I speak at length to people in real life and often they describe the experience as “perspective changing,” but since have no real platform from which to speak other than personal experience, why should they trust anything I have to say? I speak in platitudes and can be rude or brusque, which is to say I am no better than they in delivery, but despite this commonality, why is it that my perspective remains mostly the same while theirs alters in some more meaningful way? I’ve never thought to ask…

Many here have influenced my way of thinking, I admit, and am thankful for it, but it is not without a healthy amount of skepticism have I progressed forward in my own parallel journey — what quality is it then that makes one individual more trustworthy than another, even without direct objective proof?