>>507168881 (OP)>I'm not joking. What's great about competition?It's not about it being "great", it's about it being inevitable in any stable system. All stable systems require negative feedback loops, and all negative feedback loops require competing forces.
People are going to compete regardless of what "ism" people pretend to worship. Burying your head in the sand leads to worse outcomes than accepting it because when you accept it you can at least try to engineer the system such that individual interests align with the public interest. If you delude yourself into thinking that people will magically stop competing just because you wave the correct flags and chant the correct slogans then you will feel no need to ensure that individual interests align with the public interest, and this is why basically every historical attempt at communism etc resulted in a dictator who turned the entire country into his own private property. After all any measures taken to prevent the rise of such a dictator would be, by definition, competition. You are competing against the aspiring dictator by obstructing his plans for absolute domination.