Well it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period.
But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust.
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Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China.
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Lack of advanced economies promoting ‘everyone is a customer’ – often in the same places.
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Diversity and competition too great to overcome. (Levant, Central Asia, Arabia.)
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Inbreeding and tribal marriage inhibit development of ‘everyone a potential mate, and everyone a potential customer’.
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Genetic predisposition that evolved under higher selection pressures (group selection rather than individual selection via mating).
(h/t paul)
Source: (2) Curt Doolittle