The more dysfunctional public services are the more you force people to go private and fend for themselves This moves you into the direction of Brazilification Rich people will pay for their own walled condos with private security, bulletproof cars, private healthcare, and everything will be high quality but only for the rich. At the same time the rich will build constructions to not pay tax or just flee the country because why would they not? This pushes down tax income for governments meaning they will have to increase taxes to pay for the already dysfunctional government services Meanwhile poor people get further isolated, they don't have money to go private so they rely fully on public services which are now worse than they were before. And they get isolated even more and now you have a 2-tier society of rich and poor fully divided This forces the poor to start robbing the rich and now you get even more private security and rich fleeing the country and less tax income "Brazilification" It's a vicious cycle Now if you had safe cities, great public services, great healthcare, you would never have this problem. You'd have both rich and poor participating in the functioning system. And rich would be happy to pay more because they get a great liveable society!