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A short-term competitive advantage can come with long-term fragility and susceptibility to disaster. For instance, imagine two countries with identical resources, one increases its population so that yearly food production can barely sustain it, while the other has a smaller rate of growth. The first will have a competitive advantage every year until a drought comes, when it will be hit by disaster.

Similarly the competitive advantages you describe may come with long-term risks that are harder to measure or predict, especially those that come from the government itself.