Blue Maverick
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Unfortunately they want us to get rid of these perfectly good cars as well, bloody greenies ;)
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Why does everything seem to be made into some kind of competition?
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mancity2012_eamo
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He just had to have the best thread, didn’t he?Thread of the year!
OP is right.
Why can't people be happy with what they have?
Always trying to one-up the next person.
Just be grateful for what they have.
Everything is indeed a competition
mancity2012_eamo
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Are you stalking me?What is this need to have the best house, car, kids, dog?
The most attractive wife?
The best job?
Wear the best clothes?
Go on the best or most exotic holiday evah?
Drink the most alcohol?
Wear the most expensive lycra whilst riding the best pushbike on your way to drink the best coffee in the best coffee shop?
Even walk the most steps in a day?
Is this quest for the perfect life, (which is unachievable) making people more selfish and unhappy?
Grassland Blue
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No reason to.....Are you stalking me?
SkyBlueFlux
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I mean, if you want a proper answer to your question then you need to go back about 4 billion years to the advent of evolution.
Humans are inherently competitive because without us being really good at winning competitions we wouldn’t be here to be discussing how competitive we are in the first place. We’ve now built this into our society, though we are sufficiently enlightened as a species that many will say we didn’t need to.
In the same way people can overcome their “innate” nature to become vegetarians on a moral basis, many can also forego the need to compete with others on a similar philosophical standing. There is no longer an inherent driver that obligates us to be competitive, but the momentum that we carry from years past means that people still see it as a virtue, and this will likely be the case for a long time to come.
The worst example of this is “hustle culture” which in my opinion is a plague among young people on social media. This perpetuates the idea of working hundreds of hours a week or having three jobs as some kind of badge of honour. That’s not a competition you want to win. It’s a classic case of people knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Humans are inherently competitive because without us being really good at winning competitions we wouldn’t be here to be discussing how competitive we are in the first place. We’ve now built this into our society, though we are sufficiently enlightened as a species that many will say we didn’t need to.
In the same way people can overcome their “innate” nature to become vegetarians on a moral basis, many can also forego the need to compete with others on a similar philosophical standing. There is no longer an inherent driver that obligates us to be competitive, but the momentum that we carry from years past means that people still see it as a virtue, and this will likely be the case for a long time to come.
The worst example of this is “hustle culture” which in my opinion is a plague among young people on social media. This perpetuates the idea of working hundreds of hours a week or having three jobs as some kind of badge of honour. That’s not a competition you want to win. It’s a classic case of people knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
mancity2012_eamo
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True.No reason to.....
You only stalk the best . ;-)
I'm With Stupid
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I remember someone saying people will pay 10 grand to knock 2 kilos off the weight of their bike, but won't spend an hour a day riding it to knock 2 kilos off themselves.Wear the most expensive lycra whilst riding the best pushbike
Mr Kobayashi
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The worst example of this is “hustle culture” which in my opinion is a plague among young people on social media. This perpetuates the idea of working hundreds of hours a week or having three jobs as some kind of badge of honour. That’s not a competition you want to win. It’s a classic case of people knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing
And almost certainly bullshit anyway.
It's like all those MLM videos on YouTube.
Why would successful business people want to share all their secrets with people on the internet?
It's just people taking advantage of gullibility.
Kompany Car
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You're not wrong, you always find those that had nothing as kids are the ones who like to post it all over social media. Its also much more of an issue for younger people.It's called insecurity.
Im 50 and to be honest if someone has a bigger house or a better car, more expensive clothes, fancier holidays, if it makes them happy then fine. Maybe they've sacrificed a lot to get them or being lucky, would i work every hour god sends to get the same, absolutely not.
Now take me back to being in my 20s and you would have probably got a very different answer. Ive never been jealous of anyone but having as nice a car as I could afford, designer clothes, going on 18-30s etc were probably my main driver in life.
Its not until you've lived a bit that you realise what's important and what in the bigger scheme of things in meaningless.
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I reckon this sort of thing is what fuelled homosapiens to outcompete previous human species.
Always striving to improve things and do things better than the last person and better than your neighbour is how we went from hunting and gathering nuts and berries to putting rovers on Mars.
It’s a human trait.
4,000 year old mummies found in Central Asia had colourful clothing with feathers in hats and beads in their hair. Otzi the Iceman, a 12,000 year old mummy preserved in ice was found to have tattoos. Everything we may always have done as a species links to how we appear to other people.
Although, not just human. Across the animal kingdom, there are examples of those who put on the best displays and dances and have the most colourful feathers or the thickest manes determines who gets the mate. Those who don’t have the best display or dance or feathers or manes get left behind and their genes don’t get passed on.
Maybe it’s a natural thing as an animal to show that you have the best things?
Always striving to improve things and do things better than the last person and better than your neighbour is how we went from hunting and gathering nuts and berries to putting rovers on Mars.
It’s a human trait.
4,000 year old mummies found in Central Asia had colourful clothing with feathers in hats and beads in their hair. Otzi the Iceman, a 12,000 year old mummy preserved in ice was found to have tattoos. Everything we may always have done as a species links to how we appear to other people.
Although, not just human. Across the animal kingdom, there are examples of those who put on the best displays and dances and have the most colourful feathers or the thickest manes determines who gets the mate. Those who don’t have the best display or dance or feathers or manes get left behind and their genes don’t get passed on.
Maybe it’s a natural thing as an animal to show that you have the best things?