It’s almost useless to be upset at the level of competition that exist since you are taught directly or indirectly from childhood to compete with each other. For example, who knows all their colours, who can count the best, who knows all the letters of their ABC and so forth. The goal you might ask, well to become the teacher’s favorite or just to be the smartest because your parents gave strict warning that you must be the best in the class.

We Want it All

We also live in an individualistic society, everyone for themselves. We do not operate as a collective, and as a result competition with each other is constant. Similarly, we like power and respect and in today’s world, we need a lot of money for that. So what do we do, we relentlessly try to get ahead of someone who has more. Because of our individualism, we don’t like to work together as having the whole pie is way better than a third, or a quarter or one-eighth of the pie. We don’t want to share (side eye) What’s sharing we say? We want to compete! Yes, that’s more like it.

For example, you and a group of friends or family decided to start a business. Everyone then become so concerned about what they are going to get out of it instead of how they can build and uplift each other to be collectively successful. This is evidenced in music groups where they started off as a group but soon thereafter, they have all gone solo. Why? Well my best guess is that, they are no longer interested in sharing the profit. Everyone wants their own. And even sooner after that, they may start to compete with each other to see who can make it to the top of the charts, the fastest.