The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhappy at work?

Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by drabiega on Friday May 27, 2016 @08:08AM (#11785442)

> Seems like you may need a bit of healthy competition to make the breakthrough, but afterwards cooperation is crucial otherwise the gains of the breakthrough are never realized.

I think it's just a product of the societies we've had. In all those cases it was the cooperative aspect that made the breakthrough. The competition was only needed to allocate the resources for it, though, given the nature of our society.

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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by TeMPOraL on Friday May 27, 2016 @08:22AM (#11785498)

I think you nailed it. What competition did in this case is allowed enough resources to be allocated for those projects - there are a lot of worthy endeavours today that are mostly competition-free and end up resource-starved because of that. Competition adds urgency to an issue, which reprioritizes things.

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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by aleh on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:23AM (#11785813)

Aren't these worthy endeavours resource-starved because most of resources are being spent on less worthy endeavours which involve competition?

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Re:The new utopias: Should we retain the right to feel unhap... by TeMPOraL on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:26AM (#11785830)

Yup.

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