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Why is competition not fierce in China?
Competition is terribly fierce in America. Everyone, from birth to death, can never imagine escaping the whirlpool of competition. But Chinese society is filled with harmony, with few people having competition awareness. Why is this?
As a communist state there is little, if anything for the working classes to compete for.
Secondly the 'silent majority' have been subjugated and cowed into passive submission by the tyrannical communist regime.
Step out of line and you're off to one of the Xinjiang re-education'' ( brain washing to you and me) type camps.
Life is a competition and it's competitors help to stimulate their respective economies through their innovation and constant search for improving efficiency.
Almost everything used in the world's developed countries has been the result of inventions/discoveries made in the competitive western nations.
Electricity,
The light bulb,
Television,
The camera
The telephone
Radio,
Radar,
The internal combustion engine,
The diesel engine,
The jet engine,
Automobiles,
Aircraft,
Space going rockets,
The submarine,
High yield farming techniques,
Penicillin/antibiotics,
Most life saving and pain relieving drugs.
The above are just a few of the everyday items we all take for granted that have been the upshot of competitive western societies which is epitomized by the United States of America.
Almost everything used in the world's developed countries has been the result of inventions/discoveries made in the competitive western nations
Utter codswallop and you know it is because we've had this exact conversation before. Many inventions come from the Middle East, such as: algebra, calendars, the toothbrush, the first functional flying machine, music notation, universities, hospitals and mechanical cranks.
The fact of the matter is that you are a filthy racist bigot and it's that simple. You are a racist bigot and you're such a vile person that you think it's funny.
Competition doesn't drive innovation anywhere near as much as research drives it. Competition begets conflict. Research begets information and innovation. Cooperation begets efficiency. It wasn't competition that gave us light bulbs, TV's, electricity, cameras, phones, radio, radar, engines, cars, aircraft, rockets, subs, mass farming, penicillin or any other such innovations. It was research, creativity, and continuous application.
In reality, a society based purely on the concept of competition means the fiercest, biggest, strongest, rule the society, but not necessarily the smartest, or the most sensible, or the most rational, or the most qualified.
Competition is much less effective in promoting innovation and fair, freer societies, than altruism, cooperation, rationality, and the search for new information.
The system you describe has arguably brought us more harm than good, if we think about it long term. The level of consumption driven by the systems of competition will lead us to climatic and cultural oblivion.
You cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet. It is that simple. And any proposed solution requires not competition, but cooperation. Not selfishness, but altruism. Not conflict, but accord.
Competition doesn't drive innovation anywhere near as much as research drives it. Competition begets conflict. Research begets information and innovation. Cooperation begets efficiency. It wasn't competition that gave us light bulbs, TV's, electricity, cameras, phones, radio, radar, engines, cars, aircraft, rockets, subs, mass farming, penicillin or any other such innovations. It was research, creativity, and continuous application.
Now according to the Dumb Ass innovation does not work it's all research.
Nothing I said was about "innovation does not work", or whatever bullshit word salad you've decided to excrete from your oratory. What I said was, research and cooperation drive innovation more effectively than competition does.
That is not the same as "innovation does not work".
Time saving hint;- once you see The Shamrock Logo ignore everything and everyone associated with it.
What has taken place here is that, ''The Fool'' was recruited by nom to support his reply to me. In effect all that happen was this even bigger fool than nom, weakened what was already a woeful failure at a riposte.
The other inventions I omitted to include in my list were;
The computer,
The internet,
The language in which these two galoots are unsuccessfully trying to communicate,
The locomotive,
The printing press,
The ball pen,
The fountain pen,
Ocean going liners,
Modern building materials and techniques,
The list of inventions and scientific discoveries made as a result of inquisitive academics, entrepreneurs and the R&D departments of small and large corporations all spawned from various COMPETITIVE western societies is endless.
You enjoy luring nom into your killing zone where you destroy him every time.
He must be a glutton for punishment as he keeps coming back for more-and more-and more.
Like all masochists suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and multi-personality schizophrenia he does have a certain entertainment value on the site which is probably why Andy tolerates his presence.
The list of inventions and scientific discoveries made as a result of inquisitive academics, entrepreneurs and the R&D departments of small and large corporations all spawned from various COMPETITIVE western societies is endless
You do realize the apparent correlation between the society being competitive, and its citizens doing research and development, does not prove that the innovation in those societies is a result of the competition. It just shows that it was a result of the research and development. Research and development don't require competition. They require a willingness to research and develop.
The internet was not a product of competition. It was a product of an English man in a university who wanted to connect several computers to each other. The computer was not a product of competition, it was a product of a man who wanted to help make navigation easier, and the only reason his research did't continue was because someone in the government cut the funding.
The English language is not a product of "competition" lmao. Ludicrous proposition. Like all languages, it developed as a means to COMMUNICATE and RELAY INFORMATION BETWEEN PEOPLE. Cooperation.
The printing press was not created by competition, it was created by a religious man who wanted people to have easier access to the bible. Notice the words there. None of them scream "competition".
The ballpoint pen wasn't driven by competition either. It was invented by a man who wanted to be able to write without all the fuss of filling a fountain pen.
The fountain pen wasn't invented by competition either. It was invented by a schoolteacher who wanted a way to write without all the fuss of dipping and blotting.
You do realize the apparent correlation between the society being competitive, and its citizens doing research and development, does not prove that the innovation in those societies is a result of the competition.
Sophistry is the home of the far right. They live and breathe it.
You explained the point well. I wonder what his thoughts are on the chances of anything being invented without the wheel, which of course did not occur within "competitive western societies".
To be perfectly honest his entire attitude irritates me because it is the literal destruction of the human race to compete against itself instead of the universe.
Yep. He has been fed this notion about competition. It wasn't competition that got me three degrees. It was application, learning, engagement, cooperation with colleagues, mutually beneficial relationships, support networks, financial help, emotional and psychological self development, a desire to want better for my parents in their old age, a desire to want to help other people by giving something to society.
None of that would be possible if all I did, all the time, was make life a competition with everyone around me.
Yep. He has been fed this notion about competition. It wasn't competition that got me three degrees. It was application, learning, engagement, cooperation with colleagues, mutually beneficial relationships, support networks, financial help, emotional and psychological self development, a desire to want better for my parents in their old age, a desire to want to help other people by giving something to society.
Absolutely brother. He's just repeating what he's been indoctrinated with and/or spoon-fed like the good little monkey he is. It probably doesn't occur to him why almost everybody who has been educated to university level disagrees with his point of view.
Competition breeds resentment, hatred and, ultimately, psychological problems. It also ends in one place, and that's with one winner. His point of view belongs in the dusty annals of history, when empires flourished and gang rape was still a popular pastime.
This is precisely the reason why I don't associate with the so-called "far right". Anarcho-capitalism is actually a form of feudalism combined with tribalism.
Their socialist/communist state takes away the incentive to be creative and compete because it's a command economy where what gets produced is directed from above by the Dear Leaders of the State.
Their socialist/communist state takes away the incentive to be creative
You are absolutely laughably stupid. Tell that to Albert Einstein, the socialist who figured out how the universe works while idiots like you were sending slaves down to the mines to work for their supper.
How's that Soviet Union, Venezuela, Cuba working out for you
None of those were/are socialist countries. The Soviet Union and Cuba were dictatorships and Venezuela is capitalist. How are Zimbabwe, Uganda and Rwanda working out for you?
Remind me again, does Zimbabwe still have an 8 billion percent inflation rate?
While I disagree with a lot of China's political policies, to say Chinese culture and industry aren't "creative" is laughably incorrect. They invented paper, fireworks, the mechanical clock, silk, tea, compasses, high speed rail, e-commerce, mobile payments, cancer killing drugs, disability testing in the womb, stealth shielding for aircraft, bovine insulin, stem cell treatments for cancer.
