Don’t forget that they have a very strong banking system with high secrecy around it. This probably brings in 5-10% of their GDP in revenue per year.
If you play the economic benefits of this back the last 100-150 years you probably end up with a lot of the difference downstream from that. (Not that the other things aren’t cool or useful)
(I also personally see this as a bit of a global defect since it allows people to tax fraud and similar but let’s not get into the global banking system)
Other key things going on with Switzerland, at least according to my vague impressions:
more federalism
more direct democracy
no single president (maybe a big deal?)
Don’t forget that they have a very strong banking system with high secrecy around it. This probably brings in 5-10% of their GDP in revenue per year.
If you play the economic benefits of this back the last 100-150 years you probably end up with a lot of the difference downstream from that. (Not that the other things aren’t cool or useful)
(I also personally see this as a bit of a global defect since it allows people to tax fraud and similar but let’s not get into the global banking system)