I agreed with your first statement about competition and collaboration both being necessary. But if you extend that over time you see that those states in natur

I agreed with your first statement about competition and collaboration both being necessary. But if you extend that over time you see that those states in nature exist in a state of endless conflict, not in parallel. So in the realm of governing economies (democratically or otherwise), one of the most unfortunate but profitable outcomes of the human desire to oscillate between competition and collaboration is to be something like Argentina: Nationalize those things you want to be fair and accessible every 10 years and then privatize them again every other 10 years. This way, each new generation can lean capitalist or communist and make a killing by raiding whatever wealth was built by the previous generation in the name of fixing the system. Because after all, neither system is real. Both are just ways to paper over the fact that each new generation of young people are animals who kill their parents.