Competitiveness and Limitations / North Korea and Japan

I’ve been to various workplace. In some places it was very happy and in others it was very hard. That’s the result of putting my ego back a little and scrutinizing the members of the workplace. I have come to know what is important to man. People try to relax and competition is its means. Leisure will bring a better competitive edge. Members of uncompetitive and leisurely workplace worked quite spontaneously and efficiently.

Until now, ‘competition’ has been central to liberal ideology and neo-liberal ideology. To begin with, it is North Korea that can see the most impact of competition in the near future, and Japan that has experienced the limits of competition. North Korea is full of energy to achieve its people’s economy and welfare through competition.

Japan is running out of energy that can come from competition. The Japanese people realized that there are certain things that cannot be done with effort unconditionally. North Korea may have the fearless energy to advance its liberal market economy. The welfare of competition-driven economic development in North Korea will overwhelm the negative effects competition. The Japanese, however, ran out of competitive energy.

The U.S. is rich in resources, technology, territorial land, and geographical location. So the U.S. has the option of choosing a fully liberal market economy or a welfare state. The U.S always has a chance and the people have hope even if the current welfare is reserved for the future. But Japan, which had only the competitiveness arising from extreme mental tensions, couldn’t get beyond the U.S

Northern European countries had the same conditions as Japan. However, they overcame the problem in due course with an ideology that values welfare and community, and Japan missed it. Of course, Korea should not follow Japan’s footsteps. There will be no future for the nation if it fails to choose the proper ideology to suit its time. Focusing on short-term goals, political gambit, demagoguery, extreme one-sided ideology and religious disruption will be poisonous to the nation’s future.