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

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

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