In a society based on competitive bullying, even the victims figure out how to game the system.

"In a society based on competition, you inevitably get fewer and fewer winners and more and more losers." -Wendell Berry

Human tribes are fundamentally the same as wolf packs. Social constructs to protect the weak until they can survive, join the pack or move out on their own.

Civilization tries to teach everyone to fight for alpha dog status just to eat. Nobody questions the usefulness of competition to their place or to those closest to the soil as long as they are perpetually looking up toward the All Seeing eye of the pyramid schemes.

Cooperatives were basically destroyed by anti-communist fanaticism.

Whatever you do, don't question Competition.