Are simple behaviors and yet are widely recognized as important to the successful functioning of society. This is not a revelation, but a well documented fact. Surely they should have monetary value? LOL...
What then of governments and privileged citizens that abrogate and destroy these attributes in order to selfishly insulate themselves from the hard work of consensus building, kindness, honesty and empathy extended to all? Hard to go colonizing with these credos. Perhaps that is why institutions and people alike who espouse these attributes always seem to disappear. Kind of a battle of good vs evil actually.
The short answer in IF THEN format is: IF there is no money to be extracted or made, THERE is no reason to care say those who derive their power and influence with currency. Small group, greed driven and full of hubris, this is a one dimensional world view and has dangerous long term outcomes for all, the small group who by whatever luck or cunning finds themselves insulated from the rest of the population has always used manipulation and force to maintain their status and get what they want. This gang has no particular affinity to a flag, just to an ego driven lifestyle. But history reveals that this IF THEN statement never works if iterated enough times. The Western Roman Empire, Mesopotamia and the Levant, the Han Dynasty and many many more examples exist of collapse when the legs of this stool are weakened. There are tipping points that are thought to be understood - until they are not. Much like there are experts who get it wrong all of the time, mostly because they are mis-directors and paid dupes with credentials of some kind. Anyhow they serve a purpose, even it that purpose is nefarious.
1. Erosion of trust through deceit: Fool me once shame on me fool me twice - shame on you! Honestly, people know when they have been hoodwinked and although they may calculate it is better to go along than to refuse to, but there is a point out there that the latter over takes the former.
2. Amoral behavior of various kinds: Corruption, weaponized power and statecraft that delivers outright theft and fraud... it's all been done before and it always ends in the same results. Every time.
So when the balance of these two factors gets a bit too out of whack, other chaotic forces tend to build momentum, accumulated cultural and societal decline drives a rebalancing eventually.
So government is the de-facto maintainer of the balance. With all of the tools and measurements around these days it's hard to imagine lack of awareness of the interplay of factors that move the center of balance. So we must ask ourselves; who stands to gain by toppling, disrupting or re-inventing our systems? The small circle of endless promoters of the next biggest thing seems to be the only clique that is profiting and they aren't a very transparent bunch. They don't feel secure in public debates or in transparency either. The interesting revelation that seems to be surfacing more and more is reality and awareness of just how limited future adventures really are. This has translated into a smoke and mirrors detection sensibility that appears to be growing world wide.
LOL, indeed. As mentioned in earlier posts, even the largest data center with the most highly developed LLM cannot predict the future. Looking backwards and making warnings doesn't seem to be in the algorithms. At least not in your version.
