“Societies Without Competition Collapse” | Anand Ranganathan #PLF2025

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]And competition is one. We don't seem to be learning from this.

[00:00:06]If you look at the theory of evolution, competition is a cornerstone of that, you know? And you look at the way societies work, and all those societies that do not imbibe Darwinian evolution, theory of evolution, that do not imbibe that thinking, which is empathy, which is survival of the fittest, but which also is competition.

[00:00:31]You tell me how how they are doing.

[00:00:33]They've almost become either extinct or they've been destroyed. I talk of USSR, I talk of all the socialist economies, I talk of, you know, all those economies or nations, rather, that are super nationalist, othering others, you know, they've been destroyed or they would be destroyed.

[00:00:53]What would survive is extrapolation of logic and irrational or Darwinian evolution, and competition is one. We don't seem to be learning from this.