Liberal western values were invented hundreds of years before modern levels of wealth.
Wealth and security has the opposite effect. People take it for granted and that security becomes more important than the western values of liberty, etc.
> Liberal western values were invented hundreds of years before modern levels of wealth.
You need to look at when they became mainstream and were codified into the law and into our other institutions, not when they were invented. E.g. women got the vote in the US only 100 years ago.
Wealth and security has the opposite effect. People take it for granted and that security becomes more important than the western values of liberty, etc.