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If there's enough food to sustain everyone, why is competition necessary? Is everyone just fighting over the chance to get fat, or would the winners have better
by daveFNbuck 7y ago
If there's enough food to sustain everyone, why is competition necessary? Is everyone just fighting over the chance to get fat, or would the winners have better nutrition and gain a permanent advantage, even if they won initially due to luck?
What makes the competition fair? The guy who's good at chess wants a chess competition. The ex-basketball player wants a jumping competition. Would a fair competition be one that plays to existing strengths, or one that everyone is equally likely to win? If it's the first, how do you decide whose merits are most worthy of being rewarded? If it's the second, where does merit come in?
- PopeDotNinja 7y agoHaven't you ever played a game, won, and felt good about winning? If not, try it sometime. You may find that winning is fun. It's even more fun when the other players like you enough to play with you again. What sucks is winning when the losers starve to death.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoI like winning. It's fun without the loser eating less because I won.
- eridius 7y agoYou can play a game without adding an external reward to it.
- downrightmike 7y agoThere is a psychological part where doing things makes you happy, eventually you exhaust that and the amount of money is the only measure you have. That is what makes people greedy even if they have billions, they still want more. Just how we evolved.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoIf the goal is to keep score, you can do that directly. A score tally sounds a lot more satisfying than a hoard of rotting food.