Ten Principles for a Healthier Society and a Warning

Google Earth, accessed 10/8/2018

You want a great society? Here's the basic principles for producing a great society, based on all of my research and observation to date:

1. Respect the environment as if your life personally depends on it (it does). 
2. Respect others for being who they are so long as it doesn't actually hinder you from being who you want to be. 
3. Create incentive structures and social systems that enable the most amount of people to participate fully in the society at the expense of any one person or group of people from being able to corner and take control of the whole. 
4. Share the wealth, and make investments in public projects that benefit the health and well-being of the citizenry. The greatest monuments that can be built are in the minds, hearts, and well-being of all people. 
5. Get buy-in from people using a system of inclusive feedback and consensus-building. Make it easy for anyone to come to a public place or discussion about neighborhood through national issues (including having the government come out to the neighborhoods to have these discussions about local through national issues of relevance).
6. Regulate journalism. You may put whatever you want out there in the media, but if you want to call something "news", it must be truthful with demonstrated evidence. Bring back independent investigative reporting too, and make anti-trust regulation specific to the industry to break up the media system into competing factions.
7. Share burdens, share benefits freely. You're not always at a loss because someone else is gaining differently than you, neither are you at a real loss if they're gaining and you're sinking. If you're feeling like it's not fair, you can hopefully take some time to evaluate your current life choices, and rethink what you want to do. Or, if there's a problem preventing you from getting to that better point, feel free to reach out to resources (like workforce development programs or life coaches that the public sector could provide at cost) and help yourself get back on track. 
8. Government matters, government is needed. You should want the government to do some functions in society and, while it sucks, you should also want to contribute taxes to some things. The private costs of not doing so often outweighs the private benefits that are realized from not putting in to the common pool; see the quality of life and wealth difference between higher/reliably taxed Northern Italy and lower/unreliably taxed Southern Italy.
9. Taxation should be collected on a basis of negotiation between public expenditures and public revenue collecting methods. It should be on ongoing dialogue, and quality evidence should be provided to demonstrate work completed, and the quality of the work itself. There is no sense in collecting more than is needed to fund the government well. Taxes should also be a broadly shared thing (because wealth should be shared broadly enough to allow for everyone to pay in to the system that supports them and others).
10. Last but not least, don't be a douchenozzle to others and remember, it doesn't matter who is the strongest at any given time. What matters is who is most adaptable and capable of cooperating that counts for human groups. We are eusocial. If you're not about that life, we can move against you more effectively than you can against us, and we will be kinder to you too upon capture. I only want to disarm and take unharmed for psychiatric evaluation and possible treatment. That's all.

Those are some of the basics, imperfectly conveyed to you through the medium of my written language. Make with it what you will, or not. It's literally no skin off my nose if you all mess things up for yourselves.