This is where all these things get fuzzy ... I very much doubt that the US, as an example, would be able to survive the test. The legal systems and structures do nothing for the average Joe but make the elite very rich. As Rothschild famously said, "give me control of a country's money supply and it can have whatever laws it wants". The Law, and our definition thereof, is much more than laws, rules and regulations, it must include social norms and constructs.
Social values have, as someone else remarked on your post, declined to such levels as to be floored as well as flawed. Our institutions such as Governments, Central Banks, the UN, The Red Cross (e.g. in Haiti), Funds Management, big businesses are all riddled with malpractice, fraud and simple theft.
Conversely, and by the same social standards, our expectation to consume faster than we can produce continues unchecked.
Whether it be the meteoric rise of the credit card since the 60's & 70's which has given millions access to unearned cash or the even bigger rise in the value, pursuit of and adoration of 'fame' which has given society an insatiable appetite for the untenable, unachievable and unaffordable.
My suspicion is that highly developed societies are so clouded in by strong drivers which are completely unnecessary to their prosperity that they have blinded themselves and have bought a new device which makes the people believe they can see. It is this new view of the world, this new set of lenses, couched in various guises of consumerism which keeps people anaesthetised and ignorant of the depths of their emptiness.
This is paying it forward in the most cynical of manners imaginable. Nations everywhere seem to have cottoned on. Institutional exploitation of people is the game. Hugo Chavez's daughter is reputedly worth about $4.2Bn. Billion! Not million, Billion. I see more and more of his citizens here in Ecuador every day. They have paid it forward and the daughter has the cheque. The expectations of the people cannot be met. They paid on Visa and are expecting to receive in cash but the piggy bank does not even rattle! In fact the pig is not only devoid of a rattle, it contains a large IOU.
"So, let's do a selfie, post it on Facebook and go to the Mall. I really need to see the new Samsung Galaxy S21, get my hair and nails done and see my therapist. Oh, and I have to be home by 6pm, the dog groomer gets real mad if I am late."