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I used to think of competition as depressing too but the reality is that, competition is necessary for many of today's technological advances. As long as human
by sah2ed 8y ago
I used to think of competition as depressing too but the reality is that, competition is necessary for many of today's technological advances.
As long as humans continue to have disagreements around ideas, which stem from differences in perspective and understanding, competition will always remain inevitable.
Imagine if Larry Page had accepted the status quo in search, the idea behind PageRank which made Google possible would never have been conceived.
- saurik 8y agoI didn't say competition is depressing: I said humans are depressing. If Larry Page and the rest of mankind were less depressing of a species, he would have a way to be incentivized to work on PageRank without it requiring him to redo the work that was already done spidering the Internet, and it would mean that the next time someone came up with an even better way of doing it it would be plausible to launch it (as now re-spidering the Internet is effectively impossible if you have to compete from whole cloth against Google).