420blazeit69 [he/him]

We’re talking about allocting scarce resources via cooperation, not competition. Whether you could make every organization completely flat (no managers) is tangential.

I see what you’re getting at, though, and yes, of course we can allocate scarce resources by cooperation at a global scale. It already happens even in capitalist countries on issues of tremendous importance, see the negotiations around how water from the Colorado River is allocated.

Why not just say what you mean?

People share food all the time at work – if there’s a cake at an office party, you don’t fight over who gets what. People share more important things at work, too, like a saw at a construction site or a printer in an office. Competion has its uses, but it’s often destructive and wasteful.

…what? I don’t know what you’re getting at.

How do you allocate scarce resources? Competition

Competition is far from the only way to allocate scarce resources. If you make one box of mac and cheese, do you make your kids fight over who gets what share?

Plenty of people do hobbies because they want to do hobbies, not to find someone to date. If you date someone from your hobby group then break up, it can fuck up your hobby group. Same risk if you ask someone out and it’s poorly received. Depending on the hobby it’s harder to find new people for that than it is to find someone else to date. It’s similar to dating someone at work in a lot of ways.

The big benefit to online dating is that people are there because they want to date someone.