> What's wrong with competing alone? Nothing rong, per se, but there are limits to what individuals can do on their own. When you eliminate groups of cooperati

> What's wrong with competing alone? Nothing rong, per se, but there are limits to what individuals can do on their own. When you eliminate groups of cooperating individuals, there are much lower limits to what can be accomplished. Specifically when taking about the achievements of society, most enterprises require the efforts of cooperating groups. I feel like this is blatantly evident and doesn't require explanation. > It's still coeperation on a societal scale, e.g competing as an individual in a competition is still co-operating with the competition itself. I think you are mangling the definition of 'cooperation" here. It certainly is possible to compete and cooperate simultaneously (often by strictly limiting the scope of the competition and by sharing knowledge), but that doesn't mean that competing is cooperation. Even so, within that "societal scale" competition, the best results are achieved by groups that operate with either no or greatly limited internal competition.