Drop a wallet in Japan and even if it's found by the *least* honest and conscientious person it'll be returned intact because that person expects everyone else would do so and that he'd be judged if he didn't. Do the same in a low trust society and the reverse applies. 2/2
The most important way to make society better is to grant ownership title to a family that can command the loyalty of soldiers and to 

the people who are ideologically committed to destroying any long-termists.
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The helicopter is not necessary or justified. It's enough to peacefully remove bad people from power.
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You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. Why would people in power agree to be peacefully removed? Moldbug says because we can offer them a better financial deal to take a cut of a new, better government but that ignores human nature.
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