Bring it on, brat. You really should get out over my knee so you can get what your father obviously never gave you when you needed it most.

That’s right. A spoiled selfish brat.

To give something for free that you didn’t make is selfish because you’re taking from others who did make it. You’re making those who produced food and homes work as slaves to provide it. It’s not selfless to give what you take from others. And you’ve said before that you want others to provide you with these for free while you contribute nothing in the form of labor for them. That is what makes you selfish.

No. You wouldn’t contribute because you’ve said you would resort to violence to get what you need if it isn’t given to you. That’s not contributing to the betterment of society. Since all societies are made up of individuals you can’t say you support them unless you support all individuals. Threats of violence and death against those who own property(including means of production) and taking what you didn’t earn nullifies your claims to be trying to help society. Society got along well for thousands of years without you or your non-existent “real communism.”

I won't work for someone who will make profit off of me. I will only work for everyone to make their lives better. It's about who I'm helping

Wrong as usual. There’s enough market share of consumers for every business, and it’s not a fixed pie where I can only grow my business by taking it from others. It’s always growing. Rather, competition forces me to innovate so that I make a better product, do it for less cost and provide a better service experience to the consumer, which results in lower costs for everyone.

Cooperation on the other hand, is horrible for consumers because it forbids innovations that make technology better. It also fixes precise so that they can’t be lowered which negatively impacts consumers with artificially high prices and shortages. If automakers cooperated instead of competed we would all have to stand in front of cars to hand crank them. But one car maker decided that was too dangerous after a friend was killed by it, so he invented something drivers have found indispensable today: a key-ignition. It has also created every safety feature like air bags, anti-lock brakes, turn signals, etc.

Except that it doesn’t work. Anywhere. Which we’ve proved countless times.

Cooperation isn’t love. It’s selfishness at the expense of the many.

If all consumers have to go through cooperating firms to get goods and services they fix the prices and create shortages. Try reading an economics book.

For that I also recommend you try reading a history book.

Money is the easiest way to exchange for goods and services that we need. We’ve been over this with trade by barter many times. Once again, read an economics book.

You’re looking at competition all wrong. Competition isn’t to put down the other business — it’s to better serve the consumer. The consumer is going to buy bread, but which bakery will they buy it from? Obviously they will buy from whoever can produce it with the best quality, lowest cost, and will give better service. Why shouldn’t they? They have the choice of where to go. Competition then doesn’t create toxicity because there’s enough market to go around for any number businesses doing the same thing. Rather it drives people to find better ways to serve the general population. Then, I help an employer better serve his customers by working for him and so meeting both my employer’s immediate need of help and the needs of his customers, and he meets my need by paying me for my time. Yes, profit is a motive but profit measures how well someone is serving others.

Your school situation isn’t the way it works when you get not the world. You’re not going to get people from every corner of the world to set aside every difference and cooperate on everything. The same selfishness that you decry of capitalism will be present if the entire world was “true communism.” Everyone will still look out for his own interests and needs. Capitalism and competition gives a much better way to do it.

Competition is my motivating factor for high school. I am at the top of my class in two classes and work hard so that I can get into a decent college. Competition is the only way to motivate people to work hard.

Every. Single. Time. When I work in group projects, everyone else is lazy and doesn't do anything and leaves most of the work for hard workers like me. Cooperation does nothing for anyone except lazy people.

If you have ever been to school, you wouldn't really believe competition is bad and group work is good.

I’ve seen that with every job. When we cooperate together the lazy people get the same benefits as the industrious unless they’re having to compete for working hours.

Sometimes it gets even worse when hard-working people realize what they're doing isn't benefitting them and they work less so everyone ends up working way less than they need to.

Been there.

Cooperation is what helps me and my friends in high school. I've helped numerous students with their work. They love when I do so. And they help me when I have issues focusing. My grades get much better when I work with other kids

It's really not.

You're just bad at working without assistance from others. Other people aren't always going to be there to help you when you have issues. Don't force people to rely on others when they can do it by themselves.

But they love when I help

Does it really help them though? You aren't learning when someone else is providing you with the answers/work.

We used to call that “cheating” depending on how it was done.