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It feels like promotion of virtue is a valuable social function and neither bigcorps nor government are incentivized or interested in doing it in the US?

Possibly explains the popularity of "12 rules for life" etc. Also I feel like it's an underappreciated theme in @balajis.eth's writings on network states.

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.

Can you please share this source?
This is something I've been meditating on. Yes, virtue is good, but it can be taken too far. It feels like social media pushes extreme virtue signaling to a point that it shuts down civil discourse.

Can you please share this source?
This is something I've been meditating on. Yes, virtue is good, but it can be taken too far. It feels like social media pushes extreme virtue signaling to a point that it shuts down civil discourse.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-virtue-signalling-is-not-just-a-vice-but-an-evolved-tool