Social cohesion does not come from shared feelings, shared policy values, or good intentions. It comes from shared structure below the level of the existence of such things: something more durable. People coordinate, cooperate, and trust one another when the rules of the system are clear, stable, and consistently enforced no matter how uncomfortable for everyone else. When those rules are not consistently enforced, and instead are renegotiated or selectively applied to reliev

I want to suggest a singular moral assessment hierarchy to rule them all, one whose boundaries will not move because of leverage from other redeeming qualities: a trump card that renders all other labor invalid. Before we get to that, let me explain what I think we should optimize for in our economy. This essay is aspirational. It is completely unrealistic in real life as humans are today. With that in view, this is what utopia looks like. In this world view we enforce: Game-