While it is a competitive advantage inside the system (team, company, country, political system), it decreases the competitiveness of the system as a whole in r

While it is a competitive advantage inside the system (team, company, country, political system), it decreases the competitiveness of the system as a whole in relation to other systems. For instance the more a company is like this the less actually valuable results it can show (since there is less and less to steal from actual value producers), the more it needs to spend its resources on also fighting off external competitors like other companies who still create results, managing bad press, and stopping customers from leaving to better providers. It's very much like a parasite-host relationship. Sure in the 1:1 relationship the parasite might keep the upper hand and live longer, but in the end both are dying to make place for another organism. For the world as a whole it's also not a bad thing. The world changes and new problems need new systems to deal with. But the new systems cannot prosper if old systems are efficient enough to defend their place.