The competition can be against entropy and chaos, against our own faults, insecurities, and fears. Compete against the forces of mediocrity, injustice, exploitation, ignorance, and stupidity.
Within the same team, there might be some competition, but it's a competition that doesn't undermine the team's objectives, which requires cooperation between its members. It's not cut-throat, me-myself and I, dog-eat-dog, every man out for #1, in pursuit of private profits and power..etc (often at others great expense). The emphasis of communism is teamwork and cooperation among comrades, towards a common goal, for everyone's benefit. In a family you work together, cooperating to cook the turkey, bake the pie, prepare the table and maybe mow the lawn to make the front yard more presentable for all of the dinner guests that are going to share this meal with you and your family, in your home. You're not competing with one another to accomplish those tasks, you're simply cooperating.
Propaganda or not, the reality is that as automation technology advances and becomes cheaper than human wage labor, there will be a need to socialize and democratize our current, profit-based, authoritarian system of production. Freedom for most people is having food, a home, access to healthcare, an education, a social life, transportation, communication, and living for something worthy of one's personal commitment, labor, sacrifice, and even life (living for something worth dying for).
We see success and freedom, in living a meaningful existence, embodying and oriented towards life-affirming principles that increase our civility and power over the material world. Salvation is in our hands, the only paradise or heaven we will ever experience is right here in the physical world not in an "after-life" or in another dimension. We shouldn't expect wishful thinking or "faith" to save us, only hard work, coupled with human solidarity, empathy, teamwork, and plenty of science and technology.
This is what ChatGPT, my AI wrote about this topic:
The Role of Teamwork and Cooperation
Within a team or community, competition can still play a role, but it must be balanced with cooperation and collaboration. When individuals work together towards a common goal, they can achieve far more than they could alone, leveraging their unique skills and perspectives to create something greater than the sum of its parts.
In this sense, communism can be seen as an ideal system that emphasizes teamwork and cooperation among comrades, working towards a common goal for the benefit of all. However, it's important to recognize that achieving such a system requires constant effort and attention, as well as a commitment to empathy, solidarity, and science and technology.
The Importance of Meaningful Existence
Ultimately, competition is a tool that can help us achieve a more meaningful existence, one that is oriented towards life-affirming principles and the betterment of ourselves and others. Success and freedom are not about accumulating wealth or power but about living a life that is fulfilling and purposeful, in which we make a positive impact on the world around us.
In this sense, salvation is not something that we can wait for or expect to come from an external source. Instead, it is something that we must work towards every day,
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I used to hire writers to write blog posts for me at about $15-$20 per thousand words. Now I have AI, writing better posts than those human writers. This is happening in many industries, not just in content-creation. No waged labor or too little of it = no capitalism. Socialism and later communism arise naturally from advanced technology.