Sometimes I have a crazy intuition like “if people just categorically refused to work with anybody who seemed untrustworthy or “fake” or trying to take advantage, the world would be better.”
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Which is because it's hard to get anything done without leadership, people realize this & leadership emerges. Most actual progress IMO comes from good ideas that scale well, like rule of law, the scientific method, markets, peaceful and orderly transition of power etc.
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Most anti-progress doesn't come from too many bad people, but from bad ideas like communism, superstition, acceptance of feelings as more worthy than facts, promotion of incestuous procreation, promotion of the extended family over the state & other corruption, etc.
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I’m thinking more like Quakerism. Quakers got rich in the 18th-19th centuries. They had much more of an ideology of “literally everyone should follow their own consciences” than Communists ever did.
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And people’s intuitions about bad/unfair *don’t* scale, but they may be okay locally, which is what you need here: “disassociate from the people you know personally that you don’t respect or trust.”
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