Economic systems and social contracts are tied. Capitalism doesn’t work in a command economy because it’s too easy to use force to corrupt it to benefit one group or another.
Social contracts in the West are breaking badly. It’s gone from ‘each of us has a duty to play fair’ to ‘not my circus, not my monkeys’
An example. My cable provider for decades sent techs out who provided a service and also added assistance - being pleasant, hooking up a sound bar, saying ‘a tip isn’t necessary etc. The last three techs (over a period of less than three years) were ‘rough’... and each of them - as a “bid for a tip” offered a ‘free’ extra remote for my TVs. In short, they were offering what didn’t belong to them - at the company’s expense and gave minimum service. That’s a sea change. I’m seeing that in other companies too. Culture and economic system function in sync... or fail.
‘not my circus, not my monkeys’
That attitude comes from diversity.
Back in the day I used to be in the cable TV business.
Your comment is very interesting.
As you say in the old days our installers were great guys—hard working and honest to a fault.
The construction teams tended to be a little rough around the edges—my favorite story was when a bunch of them got too hot while building out Phoenix and jumped into a swimming pool.
The pool owner read us the riot act.
Lol.