What about something like having a tax whose revenue is used for supporting people with a serious enough disability that they need someone help take care of them?
“People voluntarily relinquishing their option to keep all of their money” is certainly a part of it, but “people actively doing a very specific thing” does also seem like an important part of it. (And it’s also something that seems to increase the available options for the people who do have a serious enough disability.)
The more I think about it, the more the “for supporting people with a serious enough disability” doesn’t feel like “civilization” to me. It does feel good, and I like the use of an abundance of resources being spent that way, but it feels to me like “everyone relinquishes power so that it can be used in a coordinated way” is civilization and “the coordinated use of power is for good things rather than for bad things” is moral progress. Not sure if I’m just trying to fit things into the OP frame but it doesn’t feel like it.
It feels like American people are more civilized when they create a military, but nations are less civilized when they all have militaries which are doing things to each other?
What about something like having a tax whose revenue is used for supporting people with a serious enough disability that they need someone help take care of them?
“People voluntarily relinquishing their option to keep all of their money” is certainly a part of it, but “people actively doing a very specific thing” does also seem like an important part of it. (And it’s also something that seems to increase the available options for the people who do have a serious enough disability.)
The more I think about it, the more the “for supporting people with a serious enough disability” doesn’t feel like “civilization” to me. It does feel good, and I like the use of an abundance of resources being spent that way, but it feels to me like “everyone relinquishes power so that it can be used in a coordinated way” is civilization and “the coordinated use of power is for good things rather than for bad things” is moral progress. Not sure if I’m just trying to fit things into the OP frame but it doesn’t feel like it.
It feels like American people are more civilized when they create a military, but nations are less civilized when they all have militaries which are doing things to each other?