Nature of Competition; Why Competition
There are two broad categories of reasons why we compete: push (yin) and pull (yang). By nature, first of all, we love competition. Otherwise, we would have never created competitive games , plays , contests , races and the like. Most of us are pulled by competition, while a few are fooled not only once but also “so many times.” Incidentally, “so many” means excessiveness according to the Confucian dictionary. The second reason of “push” is economic, a must as for subsistence and pleasures. Needless to say, economic rationale is of our main interest. Here again, there are push (-) and pull (+). Unlimited desires. If our desires were limited, we would have been, continuously over and consistently across, living in the hunter-gather age far from belonging to or yearning for “ leisure class .” Notably again, “consistently across” (L -1 ) is to macroeconomics , what “continuously over” (T -1 ) is to economics . ...