this strikes me as the key value of conservatism: it gives people lots of index funds into which to sensibly invest their time, effort, and money. A well-civilized society has many, a barbarous one few.
Traditional norms as an index fund. I like that.
I like the analogy. Although I have to say that when I started putting my retirement account money into index funds after I got my first real job, the idea hadn’t been around all that long. What has since become a conservative, default choice was — not all that long ago — an innovative challenge to the orthodoxy.
Are corporatist industrial and economic structures worth keeping around once time-tested in wealthy societies, for this reason?