
This is not to say that those who defend competition do not raise some worthy points. Competition Is Fierce for Government-Controlled Resources To accept without evaluation the presupposition that capitalism is a system of competition - in contrast to other hypothetical systems of cooperation (namely socialism and communism) - is to frame the very debate itself in leftist terms and play the game on an unfairly tilted game-board. They leap to a fervent defenses of competition, extolling its virtues - real or perceived. Many of capitalism’s most vocal advocates have, themselves, imbibed this premise uncritically.

Capitalism has often been described by as “a system of competition” by its adversaries, or a system “based on competition.” Naturally, this assertion is usually coupled with a spirited oration on how this “tooth n’ nail” competition psychologically corrupts us – pitting man against man in a “race to the bottom.”
