the.com/civic duty
the tax you pay in attention instead of money, and everyone's behind on it.
means the responsibilities you owe your community simply for living in it, from voting to jury duty to not littering.
from traces to the roman idea of the civis, a citizen bound to the res publica, the public thing — the notion that a state survives only if its members act like they own it.
ancient rootsromans could lose citizenship for shirking public service
jury dutyone of few civic duties enforced by subpoena
votingnot legally mandatory in most democracies, unlike australia
free rider problemeveryone benefits, few want to pay in