They can't afford ethics, honesty, "care and affection" and stuff. But without it they can't beat the slave spirit so hardly ingrained in their social DNA. Egg and the chicken, huh? They need to propagate the wealth in their system so they can stop worrying about the cash and start being themselves.
You're trying to make your problem at home look bigger and more significant by using third world problems you guys used for hypocrisy. US is still the vanguard of human economy.
Your existential crisis is nothing more than a product of typical shift in international economic power balance.