One
thing to think about is 'competition'. People feel they have to work harder
and harder to be sure of keeping their jobs, to make their company 'more competitive'.
You hear it all the time, don't you. It's all about winning, cutting corners,
making more stuff for less. You don't hear about the losers. For every winner,
there has to be losers. It's this fear of becoming a loser that makes many people
work almost all the time. And this causes 'stress' - a new type of illness which
makes some people crack-up completely! Yet some businesses work as co-operatives
in which everyone helps each other rather than competes to 'win'. Even very
big companies have discovered 'co-opetition' in which they both compete and
co-operate with other big companies.
Couldn't
humans be more co-operative and kind instead
of aggressive and competitive?