Competition can make civilization progress more than cooperation.

Cooperation can promote the progress within the team.

However, competition can promote the progress of civilization.

For example, three companies can monopolize the market. Then, it is their own pockets that make progress, and it is the internal interests of their small group-because of monopoly, there is no competitor-and neither society nor the public can make progress.

However, if there is healthy competition, it is the society, the public and themselves that make progress.

So healthy competition can promote the progress of civilization more than cooperation.

What we want to emphasize is that healthy competition can improve work efficiency-to be a good gentleman and live in harmony, which seems to be "pleasant cooperation", but it is actually a stagnant pool.

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In order to explain that "competition" is not good, the other side will definitely push the word "competition" to "vicious competition", and you will use your strength to push the other side's "vicious competition" to the position of "not doing evil"

For example, the other party said, can those kind people you mentioned also be called competition?

You can reply: So, in order to win today's game, the other side is going to give us an old fist?

Benign competition is good and will not destroy friendship, while vicious competition is not.

"Competition will not affect friendship"

Kong and Liu are known as the second table tennis figures in China. How many years have they played? It's not the iron one yet.

This is a real example!

Historically, Zhuge Liang and his two brothers assisted Shu and Wu respectively, acting in their own way, and they were loyal and important ministers of their respective countries. However, their feelings and friendship became closer-Zhuge Qiao, Zhu Gejin's second son, adopted Zhuge Liang, and even if Zhuge Liang later had his own son, he passed the title on to him. Later, the Zhu Gejin family broke the incense in Dongwu, and Zhuge Liang personally sent Zhuge Qiao back to continue his brother's family.

This is an example of version history.

As we all know, "offer a humble apology", Lian Po and Lin Xiangru have enhanced their friendship (successfully handled the competition) because of competition.

This is an example of a disproof version.

Using the above example, we can completely prove that competition is not as negative as described by the other party. Healthy competition will not only affect each other's friendship and work efficiency, but also promote progress-whether between people, between people and society, between people and civilizations. ...

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The story of "three balls" you mentioned, you think the other side can be said to be "cooperation", saying that no one could succeed because of "vicious competition" before.

I don't think it's easy to deal with, but my idea is that the three balls are not competitive, nor do they have to "compete" for one or two or three positions, nor do they have to "fight" with each other to win or lose-their goals are the same, so this example can be said that cooperation improves efficiency, but it can't prove that "competition" hinders "civilization progress"