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It's probably just massively affected by having state structures that support individual choice.

If people have trust that if they see a problem they can solve it and reap the rewards without the state stealing it from them, they do it. If not, they don't. And those individual actions spread out over millions of people reap compounding benefits

and reap the rewards

Hmm. To chart the risk for individuals a bit better, maybe that "hardwork" ought to be replaced by "shlep-blindness"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3465521

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one persons schlepp is another mans passion.
You'd have to make deals with banks.

E.g. one can argue that Russia is full of passions (but not banks)

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