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Choice is good, alternative implementations are good. But I think competition is bad. It is wasteful and antisocial.

• eanzenberg 7y ago
  Competition is good and directly leads to the progress we’ve seen in the western world.
  • nfoz 7y ago
    "Progress" is a rhetorical device used to paint whatever actually happened in a positive light. But coincident with the positive elements of the rise of western society, is a whole lot of tragedy. Wars with unprecedented brutality and scale, genocide, factory farming, mass extinctions and the systematic destruction of the planet, selfishness as a defining cultural trait. Replacing competition with cooperation may have accelerated the positive aspects of progress (e.g. science), and maybe slowed or prevented many of the negative ones. Here's a treatise on the topic, if you're interested in this counterpoint: https://www.alfiekohn.org/contest/ https://www.alfiekohn.org/contest/