> "focussed value creation" (which is best done behind closed doors)

And yet, it is the most open societies that do best at value creation. It's almost as if the degree of cooperation and coordination between the individuals is more important to success than the insights of any one individual, even if they are as smart as Mr Theil believes himself to be.

This suggests that things might not be as simple as that (it's a strong correlation, I admit)

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/iab8r7/social_trus...

(By the scale used here US is exceptionally mid)