I completely understand your position — and I respect the intellectual honesty with which you’re pursuing this line of argument. I don’t disagree with the core systemic pressures you describe.
That said, I wonder whether the issue is not competition itself, but the shape and direction of that competition. Perhaps there’s a possibility — however slim — that competition, if deliberately structured and redirected, could become a survival strategy rather than a death spiral.
That’s the hypothesis I’ve been exploring, and I recently outlined it in a post here on the Forum. If you’re interested, I’d appreciate your critical perspective on it.
Either way, I value this conversation. Few people are willing to follow these questions to their logical ends.
I completely understand your position — and I respect the intellectual honesty with which you’re pursuing this line of argument. I don’t disagree with the core systemic pressures you describe.
That said, I wonder whether the issue is not competition itself, but the shape and direction of that competition.
Perhaps there’s a possibility — however slim — that competition, if deliberately structured and redirected, could become a survival strategy rather than a death spiral.
That’s the hypothesis I’ve been exploring, and I recently outlined it in a post here on the Forum.
If you’re interested, I’d appreciate your critical perspective on it.
Either way, I value this conversation. Few people are willing to follow these questions to their logical ends.
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