Of course, what's true of individuals, is true of societies, too. Getting rich quick (particularly without effort) brings out the worst. Look a Saudi funding fo

Of course, what's true of individuals, is true of societies, too. Getting rich quick (particularly without effort) brings out the worst. Look a Saudi funding for 911 and much other mischief they've funded, for example. But this may be true of Western nations in general as wealth accelerates; and the increasing Gini coefficient in the U.S. may be just one more sad symptom of too much wealth, not too little. The U.S. won the techprogress lottery, and doing so seems only to have amped up political craziness, drug use and inequality.