There are many lessons to be learned from Switzerland. It is a relentlessly principled country of decentralized economic pragmatists. There is consensus that economic success is a baseline condition of sustainable societal function. And that jurisdictional competition aids / ensures economic success. But also: social and cultural cohesion are important, and one goal of economic success is to support social cultural cohesion. Living proof that pitting economic success against cultural and social vitality is a leftist trope.