(...) we've got two different things - we've got cooperation and we've got competition (...) The question comes down then:

- OK, let's go ahead and cooperate!
- Great!
- What's the best way to do that?
- I don't know, I think we should hold a competition to see, how we should cooperate.

And that's what capitalism is. It is a competition between different groups, that finds ways to cooperate with each other to provide a product or service in an efficient way. And the ones who cooperate better are the ones that people support. The ones that cooperate less efficiently do not get support. If you don't have a competition to see, which cooperation method is most effective, you'll never know, which one you should be using. Much more efficiency is made by having a competition to see, which cooperation method you want to use, then you would if you just said - "oh, let's just go ahead and cooperate in a willy dilly whatever fashion you would like".

Robert Kruger