“Don't compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!”

:kropotkin-shining:

Edit: Did U Kno: If this post gets 100 upbears, all sports worldwide will be outlawed.

Sorry, but I don’t make the rules.

Edit2:
🎉WE DID IT CHAPOS! 🎉
All competition is now forbidden.
If you engage in it, please report to the nearest reeducation center immediately.

    • JayTwo [any]
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      4 years ago

      Enlightened Brain: Competition being normalized in a society will always lead to it being used as a perceived source of value.

      This is akin to people attacking "cronyism" while defending capitalism.

        • JayTwo [any]
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          4 years ago

          Play started off as a way to practice.

          And it still exists to instill societal values, hence all the crap about teamwork and blahblahblah I have to hear when the local HS football program goes out soliciting donations.

          Just because it no longer has to be as strongly connected doesn't mean it no longer is, at all.

            • JayTwo [any]
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              4 years ago

              People making a game out of clothes washing, competing against themselves, is completely fine.

              But when they start competing against other clothes washers, and also they happen to be washing clothes as a job, then the "friendly competition" starts inculcating a viewpoint of workers seeing each other, and not their employers, as the enemy.

              Corporations love gamifying their work environments, because it teaches their employees to constantly try to outdo each other, and in doing so they overlook the very possibility of unifying to push for better pay and working conditions.

              One of the anti union strategies employers use is literally to make the workplace more competitive.

              Competition is training to struggle for resources in a scarce environment. Our scarcity nowadays is mainly man-made.

                • JayTwo [any]
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                  4 years ago

                  My problems with competition stem from us being in the capitalist stage of history, and therefore everything must be competitive because the ideology of growth for growth's sake in capitalism requires it.

                  The fact that you equate competition to joy, as if taking it away takes away the pleasure of eating good food, really shows how deep into the ideology you are.

              • lilpissbaby [any]
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                4 years ago

                you think playing something competitively with your friends for fun is the same thing as your employer forcing you to compete with your co-worker? lmao not even mentioning that while team sports also have competitiveness, they are also cooperative sports

                either this is a bit or you're actually delusional