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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.

"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."

"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