2. How does competition function in our society? To what extent is it healthy/unhealthy? Offer some real world examples taken from your life, community, culture, state, nation, or world.

Competition is only healthy when its mild, if it's extreme it can drive people into making wrong decisions in order to win. In our society there's competition everywhere but it's mild, except when events such as sales occur. On Black Friday the malls and stores are crowded and indeed dangerous. People are driven to do things they normally wouldn't, such as shoving and being rude in order to win products in the competition of sales. Competition makes things harder but it also makes people work harder which is not always a bad thing, for example, when enrolling for a college thousands of other students are competing with you to win a spot there, making you work harder to get better grades. It also helps me when playing sports because playing against other teams makes me try harder and play better and that's a priority to myself and many others. However, when businesses are competing against the other businesses, it becomes a problem. The whole society becomes puppets of these comapanies because they control us. They lower and higher the prices to essentials we need as they please in order for them to keep power. The price for a water bottle could be $30 and we would still have to buy it because we can't survive without it. Competition in our society is extremely alike to Darwins' theory, survival of the fittest. Another negative effect competition for money has on people is that they become consumed my wealth and devote their lives to it. We weren't put on this world to become rich with money.