There is Chimp video showing some who try to deceive others, steal food,
hide it, pretend they dont know. The Chimp was not raised in a ghetto.
He had the same nurturance as any other. His proclivity for theft and
deceit is WRITTEN ON HIS DNA. its an obvious survival technique.

Some cultures have more social predators in the gene pool and need more
careful case management to deal with that. Course they are exploited by
transnationals, but that's a two way street. There will be those inside
the corporation who are ripping it off, and the deals signed with the
local establishment are not well met.

Its useful to consider the world's first transnational free market. The
Silk Road, an interlaced network of parallel routes in which each city
was in competition with the others. Whatever the government was, the
cost of that management was calculated by the traders, who if they did
not like it, went some other way.

Machiavelli speaks glowingly of the German city states he saw, where a
competent craftsman could, and did, vote with his feet to those which
were better run. A city in Bavaria, whose name escapes me, stood without
invasion for 1000 years. It produced the finest armor that the power
elites wanted to wear. Nobody fucked with their shit.

Whatever system a place has needs to take into consideration the talent,
or lack thereof, in the local population. Those that promote honest
dealing get more honest people wanting to operate there. Those that make
it difficult for social predators will see them leave for more easier
prey. Those ruled by demagogues will attract religious fanatics.

It remains to be seen how the net, which can send out reports that cant
be censored by local power elites, affect the way business is done, or
not done. The new lie detection technologies will make it difficult for
social predators who will therefore prefer less well developed cultures
where they need to compete with other social predators.