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      You make it sound as if it’s universal. It’s neither universal in human societies nor in other parts of the animal kingdom

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      But this predates humans.

      That’s not true. The biological world isn’t fundamentally based on competition.

      Competition inside one species actually is decremental to their survival. The optimal strategy for members of a species is cooperation, especially when that reduces scarcity.

      Edit: I forgot to mention that you’re also committing the naturalistic fallacy.

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        For those lower on the pecking order, maybe. There are plenty of species where a few dominate the many of their own kind, however.

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          1. Competition is still not the optimal strategy.
          2. The biological world still isn’t fundamentally based on competition.
          3. “Domination” for animals is something fundamentally different than the domination of command and control that humans carry out.
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      You are a lot more advanced than “only animals”. :) We dont see horses chatting on Facebook.

      Sometimes humans excuse very bad behavior by saying animals are doing it, which is very silly to me. You are a human being, not a horse. The only question is, how will you use your abilities that the horse doesnt have? For good or for bad.

      Humans competing with eachother is both the source of financial growth and also the destruction of the planet at the same time. If humans cant be smarter, we will get extinct, which is very fair by nature. We have everything we need to be smarter and if our greed over paper money kills us, so be it.