The other day I heard about this Nvidia guy who was cheating on his wife, and the news basically took over the internet space and soon enough the stock market prices took a heavy beating, and just a week before that...
Elon musk was all over Twitter celebrating the hack that happened to Binance, all over you go, the competition for market, relevance, and dominance keeps making headlines, and it's honestly diabolical how people are constantly chasing over trends, hoping for a big catastrophe to happen to people they consider competition, just because of money, affluence, dominance and fame.
Now Competition at the base level is honestly very good. I genuinely can't see a healthy world without it, because monopoly will thrive, but at the fifth or sixth level competition can become a game of war, and people will literally do horrible things to stay competitive, they'll sponsor media narrative against others, try to weaponize every resources they have to better to kill competition instead of just upping the ante and being better at what they do.
However you must understand that this isn't even all there is to competition. There are those who are genuinely doing it the right way, they're using resources that tends to just kill off others, they're putting high end equipment, efforts, providing the best levels of results which of course people, companies or organisations like them are trying hard to nail an audience for themselves.
This type of competition is well, healthy to some extent, it's not directly destroying your competitors with evil ingenuity, but simply using resources to blow away those who wants to take the part of the share from you.
It's like a bidding where the highest bidder gets to take the grand price by taking away the price from others using their means, and honestly, means (whatever type you have, maybe money or connection) is the most unfair advantage that people weaponizes.
So if you cannot exactly weaponize what you have, (that's if you have) maybe because of ethics, principles and all that, then you'll probably get blown away by those who don't mind do get dirty to win in life, and this is where the confusion comes in.
Because like it or not, we currently live in a reality where people do not have principles, values they live by, lines they can't cross, things they can't say no to, then you're probably fighting a losing game.
A lot of people takes competition to the dirtiest and most cruelest levels, and sometimes it's driven by greed, the crave to have everything, the want to steal it all, and it's unbelievable. I've seen people competing on diabolical levels, and they push that limit so hard and wide that regular people cannot get there or even reach that level, it's not just cruel, it's pathetic, cringe, cruel, unbelievable, but it's the game of life, and there's honestly nothing you can do.
It's why you hear people sleeping with their bosses to get promotions, and even people trying to discredit other merited candidates illegally and unlawfully and this is the way it is.
When I was working a 9 to 5 a few years ago, I had a superior who was always trying to gain trust to the boss by ratting us out to the boss, by cooking up fake stories, of course he got improved salaries, more benefits and got more promotions, they genuinely felt he was looking out for the business.....
unfortunately he was just a guy trying to clear out any potential competition that could rival him for all that money and favours, while still pretending that he was actually fighting for our interest.
I think we generally believe that the sky is big enough for everyone to fly, but honestly it doesn't look that way because of the inventive-ness of people to occupy more space than they will naturally do.
It's pathetic and sad, especially when you can't compromise, but the reality is you have to join the game of competitors if you actually want to win as well.
However I think no one should be forced to do unconventional things, and this is the whole essence of why life feels incredibly unfair: people being forced to do things they don't want because.... Well, the next person will do it without hesitation.