disillusioned
Kraken
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The right-wing bullshit about competition being natural, inevitable, and desirable is a bullshit bluepill cope, basically the right's version of the 'equality' meme in how delusional it is.
First of all, most of the factors that determine natural selection in nature doesn't really have anything to do with so-called competition as we think of it. If a species of bug is less likely to go extinct because its natural coloring makes it harder to detect Vs other similar bugs, that doesn't have anything to do with the luckier bugs being more 'competitive'. Likewise, giraffes that can reach taller branches because they're born with longer necks didn't have to be more competitive. Nor do peacocks that have naturally flashier colors have to out-compete their less attractive counterparts.
What the right-wing garbage about competition fails to understand is that inequality is inherent. It's not the byproduct of anything that you do. You're just born with certain immutable traits that influence your chances of survival and success. The 5ft tall Indian with 3/10 face and 93 IQ is not 'competing' with the 6.4ft tall white guy with 130+ IQ. There was never any scenario where he had a chance of winning because nature had already selected for him to fail via his shitty traits.
But even ignoring the biological determinism angle, even just the sociology of forcing people to complete seems questionable. The most common argument is that most people are too worthless to create things of value without a profit or sexual motive, but while this is true, this is actually just a result of the 90/10 rule (90% of everything is shit) in general anyhow. Most normies will always be dogshit regardless of the social system, so this isn't even really an argument. Furthermore, most jobs nowadays are arguably pointless bullshit to begin with. Also look at all the art, game mods, etc, that people release for free on the internet literally every day. Even software like blender is free.
I feel exactly zero shame for NEETing.
First of all, most of the factors that determine natural selection in nature doesn't really have anything to do with so-called competition as we think of it. If a species of bug is less likely to go extinct because its natural coloring makes it harder to detect Vs other similar bugs, that doesn't have anything to do with the luckier bugs being more 'competitive'. Likewise, giraffes that can reach taller branches because they're born with longer necks didn't have to be more competitive. Nor do peacocks that have naturally flashier colors have to out-compete their less attractive counterparts.
What the right-wing garbage about competition fails to understand is that inequality is inherent. It's not the byproduct of anything that you do. You're just born with certain immutable traits that influence your chances of survival and success. The 5ft tall Indian with 3/10 face and 93 IQ is not 'competing' with the 6.4ft tall white guy with 130+ IQ. There was never any scenario where he had a chance of winning because nature had already selected for him to fail via his shitty traits.
But even ignoring the biological determinism angle, even just the sociology of forcing people to complete seems questionable. The most common argument is that most people are too worthless to create things of value without a profit or sexual motive, but while this is true, this is actually just a result of the 90/10 rule (90% of everything is shit) in general anyhow. Most normies will always be dogshit regardless of the social system, so this isn't even really an argument. Furthermore, most jobs nowadays are arguably pointless bullshit to begin with. Also look at all the art, game mods, etc, that people release for free on the internet literally every day. Even software like blender is free.
I feel exactly zero shame for NEETing.