Modern business, or modernization, requires the World to be at a constant speed to "keep up" with. (AKA China is the leader of this, Russia is the leader of that, yada yada yada) YET, how does that competition benefit the well-being of the average person on the planet? Does it at all? Does scientific and military progress (to be the leader of___) benefit a population that is mostly poor Worldwide? If so, at what rate? Is the rate of progress and its rewards celebrated by those in power, equivalent to the rate of progress of a mostly poor global population?
I'll further elaborate. If one CEO were to gain a 2 Million dollar prize, would that 2 million dollars be used as well as 1.5 million dollars of it going to funding a well-planned organization that deals with community rebuilding? In what scenario would that money benefit society more? The way our economics are structured, its as if just having money to have money is more revered than actually doing something productive with it. What keeps it going IMO, this idea that we gotta keep moving and competing all the damn time.
Esoterically, the opposing school of thought goes hand in hand with the concept of Zen, which observes stillness.
In tasks that need to be done, such as the upliftment of our people, collaboration takes precedence over competition, IMO. We should always have roles established for everyone. Everyone should have a job and a role they feel good about, everyone. Nobody left behind. If we approached that topic with the same seriousness as a group of residents banding together to clean a tornado-ravaged neighborhood, we could go much further than we have already. Competitions for sport, good, but for most other reasons, invalid, especially for glory and imaginary statuses.
What was the unsung pollutant of the Martin Luther King legacy?
IMO, When all the organizations decided to have competitions on who was leading the movement.
