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日本の衰退は官僚と政治家が増長したことも大きいが、1937年以前に自由な雇用移動によって鍛えられた戦前の雇用流動化世代の日本人と
戦後の儒教・朝鮮朱子学的価値観で育ち個人が努力によって突出する競争的文化を嫌い科挙と中庸（自己本位主義）で
序列を決めるようになった現代日本人は別人種と言えるほどに変容したことにもある

現在の体たらくは競争と自己修養を嫌う腐敗した劣等道徳に陥ったことにも辿ることができ、現在は劣化した清朝の官吏と良い勝負だろう

儒教国家主義による制度疲労による典型例は崩壊した中国の王朝のように腐敗や縁故主義が進んだ状態を考えればわかるだろう
科挙、縁故、官僚主義を優先し、競争を嫌って挑戦者を蔑視する文化（空気）によって衰退は免れない現実となった

http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~tmulligan/3p82inv_hand.html

アダム・スミスは個人が自らにとって最適な活動を行うことが本人の意図を超えて社会全体にプラスに働くとする
しかしこれには二国間通商や民間事業においてfree enterprise、自由な経済活動が保証される限りにおいての話だ
通貨を実質的に固定し貿易を制限して一方的に利益を得ようとする中国のようなならず者国家との取引は自由にとって有害となりうる

Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment
for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society,
which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him
to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.

First, every individual endeavours to employ his capital as near home as he can, and consequently as
much as he can in the support of domestic industry; provided always that he can thereby obtain the
ordinary, or not a great deal less than the ordinary profits of stock.

保護主義が行き過ぎて、国内において競争がなくなり独占企業が、自由な経済活動を阻害するような事態は近世ヨーロッパにも見つけることが
できそれを克服するための措置こそが自由主義と言える

What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely
to be of the greatest value, every individual, it is evident, can, in his local situation, judge much better than
any statesman or lawgiver can do for him. The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what
manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention,
but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or
senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and
presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.