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Yes. Virtue is good because it’s decentralized self-control. The more virtuous the society, the more self-disciplined, the less need for centralized law enforcement, rules, and punishment in general. Virtue is why we can have nice things.

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Is there a distinction between virtue and trustworthiness?

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There is actually a way to make companies understand how important virtue is: Show how cultivating virtues reduces costs/maximises value creation. I am working on a tool that does just that. For starters, I recommend watching Ben Horrowitz' take on culture.

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Education underpins virtue and sadly education systems in most countries set a really low bar for virtuous living for most, if not undermine it entirely

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4500 $DEGEN before I forget. Please don't let me derail the convo

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The US Founders are famous for being the harshest realists about human nature, and designing incentive structures that account for it. But even they all agreed on the crucial role of virtue!

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You can feel this contrast in Apple stores. Compare Japan and Korea to California. In Japan and Korea, none of the electronics are bolted down because it’s a high-trust society. A video just went viral of a man in California looting an entire store. No one stopped him. Which society would you rather live in?

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"I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private." https://lexundria.com/plat_apol/28-36/j

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Virtue is a by product of wealth. Guan Zhong wrote 2.5k years ago that moral concepts such as virtue can only come into play under good economic conditions. Tech that doesn't build wealth can only mimic virtue, it will never be virtuous. Leaders that don't build wealth, for their followers, can not sustain leadership.

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The pursuit towards virtue requires self reliance which lies in direct opposition to a government being the “caretaker for all who cannot care for themselves.” When government is your god why does virtue matter?

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Could you have a culture or social order that is not virtuous, but the rules and laws are still largely internalized and therefore have small government? I feel like religions perform this function

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Decentralization is a trait observed when many centralized actors follow and comply with the same set of shared rules Shared virtues is one form of shared rules that can allow a decentralized system to exist and thrive The system breaks when virtuosity isn’t socially enforced and intolerable behaviors are tolerated

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This is what people remark on when they visit Japan. Street vending machines are a kind of honey pot.

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Let’s not mess up our nice things

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thank you @balajis.eth core values matter /readwriteown

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Assuming it isn’t bigcorps or government, what approaches to stable and distributed Virtue do you think would work for a network state?

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i like nice things

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