ABSTRACT
People love to talk about social problems, and the conversation often becomes deeper and more passionate when values are mentioned. We say that we have unemployment because we do not value achievement enough; we have stress and marital strife because we do not value family; we have climate change because we do not care about the environment; we have poverty because we do not value helpfulness. It is easy to blame diverse problems on an ostensibly insu cient entrenchment of particular values in society.
