The lower your demographic distribution the higher demand for authority to substitute for trust and rule of law. The higher your trust the lower the demand for authority as a substitute for trust and rule of law. The only means of producing trust and rule of law is sufficiently large middle class that generates demand for rule of law in order to construct the voluntary organization of production, distribution, and trade, we call capitalism – or what the ordinary person calls ‘an economy’.
So the dispute between capitalism and socialism was always a (((Lie))), it has always been between consistent rule of law independent of man, and arbitrary rule by man.