competitiveness
adding page because of this..
@ka_ashe
How ‘Competitiveness’ Became One of the Great Unquestioned Virtues of Contemporary Culture evonomics.com/how-competitiv… via @EvonomicsMag
[via rt by timoreilly]
http://evonomics.com/how-competitiveness-became-one-of-the-great-unquestioned-virtues/
When we view situations as ‘competitions’, we are assuming that participants have some vaguely equal opportunity at the outset.
equity – everyone getting a go everyday..
But we are also assuming that they are striving for maximum inequality at the conclusion. To demand ‘competitiveness’ is to demand that people prove themselves relative to one other.
spaces of permission w nothing to prove.. ness
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Why would it be remotely surprising, to discover that a society in which competitiveness was a supreme moral and cultural virtue, should also be one which generates increasing levels of inequality?
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For Friedrich Hayek in London, the ordoliberals in Freiburg and Henry Simons in Chicago, competition wasn’t just one feature of a market amongst many. It was the fundamental reason why markets were politically desirable, because it conserved the uncertainty of the future. What united all forms of totalitarianism and planning, according to Hayek, was that they refused to tolerate competition. And hence a neoliberal state would be defined first and foremost as one which used its sovereign powers to defend competitive processes, using anti-trust law and other instruments.
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Sovereign power does not recede, and nor is it replaced by ‘governance’; it is reconfigured in such a way that society becomes a form of ‘game’, which produces winners and losers
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By studying these intellectual traditions, it becomes possible to see how an entire moral and philosophical worldview has developed, which assumes that inequalities are both a fair and an exciting outcome of a capitalist process which is overseen by political authorities. ….we need to understand how competition, competitiveness and, ultimately, inequality are rendered justifiable and acceptable – otherwise their sustained presence in public and private life appears simply inexplicable.
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For several years, we have operated with a cultural and moral worldview which finds value only in ‘winners’.
value ness
Our cities must be ‘world-leading’ to matter. Universities must be ‘excellent’, or else they dwindle. This is a philosophy which condemns the majority of spaces, people and organizations to the status of ‘losers’.
99 and 1 ness
It also seems entirely unable to live up to its own meritocratic ideal any longer. The discovery that, if you cut a ‘winner’ enough slack, eventually they’ll try to close down the game once and for all, should throw our obsession with competitiveness into question. And then we can consider ..
how else to find value in things, other than their being ‘better’ than something else.
perhaps.. if we all.. had he luxury of .. something else to do ness…
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from Heather Marsh as she writes about stigmergy:
https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/stigmergy-2/
Most systems are now run by competitive organizations. Competition creates redundancy, is slow and wastes resources on idea protection, advertisement, and more. Competition also requires secrecy which blocks progress and auditing and causes lost opportunities and ideas. Patents and copyrights further limit speed and the potential for mass input of ideas.
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from Krishnamurti‘s total freedom
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is that not what is happening in the world because we have never fond out what is our true vocation.. we are only being conditioned by society, by a particular culture, to accept certain forms of vocations which breed competition and hatred between a man and man..
the one vocation for man is to find out what is real..
if i and you are finding out what is truth, which is our true vocation, then in the search of that we will not be in competition.. as long as we do not find out that true vocation of man, we must be in competition w each other..
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via james suzman
One thing I wish I’d added to the article was about the fallacy of competition in survival of the fittest. Co-operation is just as important if not more so. Same in business. Why otherwise would we have so many anti-trust laws to enforce competition!
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/anthrowittering/status/1299271589062639617
competition et al.. red flag we’re doing it (life) wrong
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Competitiveness pertains to the ability and performance of a firm, sub-sector or country to sell and supply goods and services in a given market, in relation to the ability and performance of other firms, sub-sectors or countries in the same market.
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be you. 