Cooperate or Compete?

Competition or cooperation? One of the continuing dilemmas we face in making decisions involving other people is to compete with them or cooperate. Competition often gets good press, particularly when promoting economic theories or sporting events. And there is no doubt that we are all better for competition in the marketplace, but what about cooperation? That is often given second-place status in improving the human condition. And yet a reasonable argument can be made that we owe more to cooperation than is generally recognized. In fact, civilization as we know it could not exist without cooperation that goes beyond simple profit and loss.