Do you need enough sheeps and wolves to keep society functioning

Also what you want in a leader you would not want if a follower and that could be an issue with too many people going to university

In the US and UK with their not being enough leadership roles available and some of them are unwilling to take jobs.

Which they see as low status

You could use the historical example of a king and the subjects are a Japanese demios of Japan and their samurai

What you want in a ruler you don't want the same traits in a follower

I recommend reading Romance of the three kingdoms it tells a lot about leadership and Confucius values in regards to the ideal leader

Which in the historical novel and one of the Chinese great classics is Liu Bei who is very different from his historical version