Trust me: You don't. You'd go insane.

See for example everyone who has to live with an HOA.

Classically underspecified, you are right. The care has to be about others and respecting them, not about oneself. Like in a good partnership. Care about giving, not taking.

But as the article frustratedly states, it usually goes the other way. Like Jethro Tull progressing into desillusion from

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=luDfuZkeqKU

to

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7SGq7jMdSU

This planet is such a beautiful marble and all we do is trample it with our feet. Guys, make a random somebody smile today, will ya?

Is that what caring about people in your community looks like? Or some kind of property value paranoia and sense of control.

Reading the original article I reflected: "I can totally see how this can happen, but for some reason it doesn't happen where I live"

I moved to Switzerland 9y ago. People care. I believe this is due to high trust society which evolved not that long ago from small, poor, tightly woven communities.

This is largely a political problem, I'd start there

That's Japan.

Eh, Japan is mostly a place where everyone is afraid to not ‘be Japanese’. It can be quite stressful.