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Competition is good and directly leads to the progress we’ve seen in the western world.
by 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/