I don't think this is ownership crisis. I think this is crisis of human nature.<p>The problem has name - passionarity. The best source I know, Lev Gumilyov work (unfortunately in Russian, but google translation looks good enough, begin read on caption "Passionarity levels")
<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пассионарная_теория_этногенеза" rel="nofollow">https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пассионарная_теория_этногенеза</a><p>Gumilyov does not write numbers, but current statistics say, in population there are 1.5%-5% passionaries, who usually demonstrate entrepreneur behavior (and in democracy countries, registered as self employed or run small business).<p>All others people have very low level of passionarity, and just avoid to show initiative, mostly because this lead to responsibility.<p>That's all. Without initiative, nothing will work. Except of fraud or theft schemes, where stakes so high, that even absolutely passive people could show initiative to get so high gaining.<p>And what differ modern world from times look better, those times where one of two things, either power where extremely concentrated, so most resources where in hands of those 1.5%-5%, or exists some extremely powerful resource, like oil 100 years ago, which where good enough so passive people show initiative.<p>Now resources distributed very wide, and barriers to enter business like oil are too high, so very few passive people try to enter there.<p>Some countries show even worse things, because they for some esoteric reasons define passionarity people as enemies of normal people, and they make economy by robbing passionarity people and share loot with passive.
And all these schemes end in one - they just try to rob other countries, mostly neighbors, and when on some moment fail - break apart, what exactly happen with USSR and now happen with Russia.