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Humans are biased biologically towards cooperation. E.g. language skills and social organization into small groups, extended childhood, ability to empathize wit
by lanstin 4y ago
Humans are biased biologically towards cooperation. E.g. language skills and social organization into small groups, extended childhood, ability to empathize with outhers emotional states.
Humans who are not part of a group do not live long or well. Competition is just an artificially set up arrangement to find good solutions where the answer isn’t that obvious, like the allocation of goods and services in a multi-producer, multi-consumer money based economy. Free markets can work quite well when they avoid concentration of power in large corporations that start to violate the axioms of a free market, or when the corporations can overwhelm the government and stop regulation. But the sense of competition of all against all they seem to inspire is not accurate.