What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has de

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"Prisoners Dilemma: .... There’s a much better outcome available if they could figure out the coordination, but coordination is hard."