The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. It is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.
But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.