From competition to what?

Competition is one way to organize. And it is encoded in the culture’s DNA. The bias of money, debt, corporations, government…It’s all survival of the fittest, as they like to say. And we see how far competition has taken us. Some would argue quite far and point to numbers like GDP as evidence. But these are false proxies for measuring a species’s well-being. Since the advent of capitalism, a million plant and animal species have gone extinct.

Perhaps we can ask ourselves then, is this the best way to organize ourselves? What would happen if competition became co-operation? What if we picked a different number to measure progress?