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個人の思想や価値観が独立し自立できる（政府が規制によって独占企業を作らない）環境であれば、それが社会を破壊
することに繋がるとはアダム・スミスは考えないわけだ。むしろ独占を可能とするいかなる規制も最終的には非効率であり、自然の一員である
人類もまた自由に競争しなければならない。もしくは望む望まないに関係なく競争する運命にある

To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture,
is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost
all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation. If the produce of domestic can be brought there as cheap as that
of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless. If it cannot, it must generally be hurtful. It is the maxim of every
prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor
does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not attempt to make
his own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those
different artificers. All of them find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some
advantage over their neighbours, and to purchase with a part of its produce, or what is the same thing, with the price
of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for.

官僚が思い上がって自由を制限する統治は自然法則に反する。自然法則とは自由に競争を行うことで個人の才能や努力が社会に生かされることであり
競争を制限すれば無能がはびこり腐敗・衰退し貧しくなる、そうした文明はいずれ自由な競争によって鍛えられた文明によって滅ぼされるだろう