>> Doing *your* best is about *yourself*. It has nothing to do with anybody
>> else. It's something that everybody can strive towards, all on their
>> own.
>
> [...]
>
>> Competition is fundamentally about "I want me to win, not you". It runs
>> /against/ the idea of being fair and just.
>
> One can compete against oneself as well.  Running around a track, trying
> to beat your own best time, for example.

I would argue that "yourself" is ideally the /only/ person you should be 
competing against.

> Competition is itself not inherently bad.  Competition drives people to
> put out better and better products and services, for one thing.

 From what I've seen, it drives people towards greater and greater 
levels of obfuscation to prevent people realising how poor their 
products and services are, rather than, you know, *actually* developing 
better stuff. (The latter would cost *actual* money.)

> There is such a thing as *healthy* competition.

Sure. It's just uncommon.

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