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Education. Some of which needs to happen through parenting, so this is a multi-generational concept. But to start with, properly fund an education system.

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People destroy public property because we only spent $20,000 a year per person to educate them through high school? How much more to fix the problem? $1,000? $5,000?

You think people are pooping on the sidewalk because they don’t know any better? Their first grade teacher failed them?

We were taught civics and society alongside math. Children/pupils/young adults also did cleaning, tree planting, everyday group work. I'm surprised some countries don't have that, it helps make a better society.

Schools in America do the same. The issue is that outside of school, the lessons being taught by society are the exact opposite. It’s all about individualism and maximizing utility for one’s self while minimizing what one puts into society.

Relying on our schools will educate us out of the problem won’t work. We have too many narcissists and sociopaths in our society, and we spend too much time catering to and rewarding them.

Given the way human faeces have been treated and disposed of throughout history, then yes, inherently we don't know any better than what we get taught growing up.

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