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Is competition good?
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Without competition, no one would ever thrive in our society, nor would there by any point in working hard in our lives to reach a goal. I don't know about you guys, but without competition I wouldn't do anything at all.
Competition is indeed good and vital to society. Without personal competition there is no real drive to strive harder. Without competition in business there is no drive to improve quality. Without that there is no real choice for the consumer. Without choice there is no real freedom.
Eh, I don't believe competition is good at all. When you have firms compete against each other, firms bring themselves to new lows to make a sale.
Let's think about this for just a minute. Without competition, where would be the drive to achieve? Do you think we would have made it into space without Russia barking at our heels with her own space program? Do you think medicines would be developed without competition from other programs and producers to drive the doctors on?
I doubt it. Competition pushes us to achieve, to work harder, to get ahead. Competition is wired into the human brain. Just look at sports- why do you think people love sports so much, both watching and playing? Why do you enjoy debates so much?
It is the competition. Humans thrive on competition. Competition is not just a good thing, it is a biological thing, wired into every human being, and we can't live without it.
Okay so maybe competition is good, but pure, 100% competition isn't.
try to imagine this.
a world with no competition from the start. everyone equal. everything equal. there would be no need for money, it's all just on volunteering and donating to help out. no wars. no real technology, meaning not much causing carbon dioxide to get in air, meaning no global warming. we'd basically be living like animals, but they have competition during the survival of the fittest. so, in a way, we just can't avoid competition.
Raising healthy, happy, productive children goes hand in hand with creating a better society. The first step to achieving both is recognizing that our belief in the value of competition is built on myths. There are better ways for our children — and for us — to work and play and live.
It is a proverb that jealousy is an acid, that is more harmful to the jar in which it is kept, than to the person on which it is poured. Clearly, a person who seeks negative competition in his daily life and envies his colleagues and mates, causes destruction to his own mind. His thoughts may force him to cheat, to succeed by wrong means, and to hurt others for accomplishing his selfish desires. Hence from an individual, to the whole companies, and the federations of the world can suffer by misusing the powerful and majestic force of competition.