Anything that I do, someone else might do better, faster, cheaper.
Or, at least, I am bound to be matched within 95% by someone who is seeking the same opportunities, has similar ambitions and is driven by similar or a competing cultural background.
It’s a law of the nature.
People think alike, often mimic, attempt to do better at things they perceive as interesting. Since the time of the caves, artists who drew on the walls – often using animal dung for paint – set an example for others to either simply follow or attempt to surpass.
In today’s global economy, progress arises from competition, for a simple reason: when all goals are created equal, choice and interest in a product or service become flat. When all that one could wear in the former USSR was brown and khaki jackets made of rough threaded material, everything came from a single source of production: that of a monopolistic, government facility.
Monopolies are bad for the basic human instinct of being different.
Although we can get used to uniformity, we do not accept it. Humans want choices, different ways of doing the same thing, different views of the same image. It’s the way the human brain functions and becomes stimulated and consequently evolves. It’s how we have left the caves and built homes and skyscrapers, turned cooking into an art and how trading via a handshake became e-shopping.
In a world that has somehow united under the hood of a global network, monopolies isolate our humanity, destroy the intricate need for satisfying our various senses and turn us into robot citizens from the movie “Metropolis”.
And that alone, can be a truly devastating experience.
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