Glad to see you are back and active here again. Regarding your topic, the Western world is a high trust level society. What you are describing is a low trust level society. This is largely a cultural issue, so the solutions are more systemic and institutional than individual fixes. In my opinion a lot of it has to do with corruption in government and law enforcement. If the law doesn't apply to those in power, people have no respect for the rule of law any longer because it is only imposed on them and not used to protect them. It is like playing a game where everyone is cheating. The honest player always loses and that mentality is difficult to reverse. Of course there are ways such as personally imposing harsh penalties to send a message, but most people don't have the stomach for that.
The highlighted part is the most applicable answer on how things goes this wrong for all the concerned countries,imagine people are struggling to have food in their table and almost died of starvation while the people in power are just feeding the spoilage to the dogs
Its really heartache that the abusive are the government while people are always the victim so what they do is commit same as what others do and in long run it will become legal to them because theres no truthful agency that impose the rules.
Lucky that this was not in my country and Im proud that stealing is still against the law here