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  Also less likely to be a victim of crime.  Most blue-collar crimes are crimes of necessity.  When people around you are happier, healthier, and more intelligent, they tend to,  you know, also commit fewer crimes.
  Things like jackasses driving like jackasses on highways/local roads going 100+mph and destroying entire families in a crash?  They tend to mellow out and go with the flow more when properly educated to care about other people.
  As it turns out, when you care about others, you also care about yourself because you're reasserting the normal behavior of people actually giving a shit.
  The reason democracy is typically the best discovered form of government is explicitly because it's a government that, theoretically, is forced to actually help its people.  Which helps boost education and health, which stamps down on rampant greed, which boosts research and innovation.
  All of which cycles back into a very healthy government.  As we can see, America is very, very unhealthy.
context: I grew up with Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Reading Rainbow. I think that is why. >
  
  Unironically true. The radical message of "Other people exist and matter." 
  For me the most frustrating part is that you're allowed to be selfish here - which is different than greedy! 
  I like to say: Yeah I do want what's best for me, and it's best for me (yes personally, yes individually) when everyone around me is intelligent and healthy and happy. Because that means I get to benefit from all kinds of cool shit when everyone is prospering. 
  I'm not even talking about a communist/socialist utopia here. I'm just saying "hey can we please just look out for each other maybe?"