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Capitalist life is a competition with winners and losers. The losers are basically debt-slaves, and the winners are modern royalty.

CountDrewku 5y ago
ALL LIFE is competition regardless of whether it's capitalistic or not. People need it or they're miserable. Competition is not a bad thing.
- akimball 5y ago
  Competition is a bad thing when it squeezes out cooperative strategies with superior outcomes. This can be expected to be more frequent in a society perfuse with pro-competitive and anti-cooperative incentives. Competition is conceptually aligned with defection strategies. The fitness landscape generally has fragile optima at cooperative strategies. That said, competitive substrategies may contribute to the beneficial outcomes of a cooperative superstrategy of which they are a part. Not all life is competition. Ecosystems in general are a complex web of cooperation. One could say that all life is cooperation with equal merit.
  - CountDrewku 5y ago
    Yes, it's a sliding scale like everything. The idea that competition should not exist and is some outcome of "evil" capitalism is absolute ridiculousness. I was responding directly to that asinine comment. Life without competition doesn't exist, nor should it.
- krageon 5y ago
  Maybe all of your life is competition, but mine certainly is not. It's an unhealthy attitude to have in your private life as far as I'm concerned.
  - CountDrewku 5y ago
    I did not say all my life is competition, it was a generalization that life cannot exist without competition. Reading comprehension bud. It's a natural attitude that's innate to human survival. You need competition or you will be a miserable mentally unhealthy person. You're in denial if you don't realize this truth. This ridiculous socialist utopia where everyone is at peace doing finger painting all day doesn't exist. It's a good way for your society to collapse though. Competition is not some artificial outcome produced by capitalist economic systems.
mannerheim 5y ago
Capitalism has nothing to do with it. Schooling in China is and was even more competitive, making competition in American schools look like child's play. This was the case even before China opened up and introduced market reforms in the 90s.

CountDrewku 5y ago

ALL LIFE is competition regardless of whether it's capitalistic or not. People need it or they're miserable. Competition is not a bad thing.

akimball 5y ago
Competition is a bad thing when it squeezes out cooperative strategies with superior outcomes. This can be expected to be more frequent in a society perfuse with pro-competitive and anti-cooperative incentives. Competition is conceptually aligned with defection strategies. The fitness landscape generally has fragile optima at cooperative strategies. That said, competitive substrategies may contribute to the beneficial outcomes of a cooperative superstrategy of which they are a part. Not all life is competition. Ecosystems in general are a complex web of cooperation. One could say that all life is cooperation with equal merit.
- CountDrewku 5y ago
  Yes, it's a sliding scale like everything. The idea that competition should not exist and is some outcome of "evil" capitalism is absolute ridiculousness. I was responding directly to that asinine comment. Life without competition doesn't exist, nor should it.
krageon 5y ago
Maybe all of your life is competition, but mine certainly is not. It's an unhealthy attitude to have in your private life as far as I'm concerned.
- CountDrewku 5y ago
  I did not say all my life is competition, it was a generalization that life cannot exist without competition. Reading comprehension bud. It's a natural attitude that's innate to human survival. You need competition or you will be a miserable mentally unhealthy person. You're in denial if you don't realize this truth. This ridiculous socialist utopia where everyone is at peace doing finger painting all day doesn't exist. It's a good way for your society to collapse though. Competition is not some artificial outcome produced by capitalist economic systems.

mannerheim 5y ago

Capitalism has nothing to do with it. Schooling in China is and was even more competitive, making competition in American schools look like child's play. This was the case even before China opened up and introduced market reforms in the 90s.