Network States

Geopolitics

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.

🇮🇳🇮🇱 🇯🇵 🇺🇸(🔴) = tech + individual responsibility 

bitcoin coded  

🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 (🔵) = tech + collective responsibility 

eth coded

in both India and Japan, there is a deep cultural expectation that individuals act virtuously 

Dharma and Gimu (respectively) can be superficially translated as duty, but are much more fundamental to one’s life than merely an obligation

Are India and Japan actually individual responsibility focused in the relevant sense?