I know, right? But it's like all those bad neighbourhoods where everyone is unemployed but nobody has time to clean the streets or very, very rich neighbourhood

I know, right? But it's like all those bad neighbourhoods where everyone is unemployed but nobody has time to clean the streets or very, very rich neighbourhoods full of homeless people and never come around how to fix the issue despite their huge resources. My theory is that it's all about everyone trying to preserve their position instead of everyone giving up a little bit of what they have to increase the wealth of everybody including themselves. A few years back just before the death of Fidel Castro I went to 2 weeks vacation in Cuba and tried to steer clear from the main tourist attractions and came to the conclusion that there are 3 types of people in Cuba: Those who have access to tourists, those who have access to the government and the rest. I wouldn't claim that I understand Cuba just from two weeks being there but I lived in quite functioning and quite dysfunctional countries and IMHO there's a pattern and the pattern is about how much people believe in the social contract. This fundamentally defines their behavior, game theory, I think.