"Why are we all in competition?", this is a question of my project recently. My previous work was just talking about how we compete like dividing territories, but recently I got into looking for reason why we are in competition, and when did we started.
Surplus was one reason I found. I think that human start to compete since human got a surplus crop. Having a surplus crop was a symbol of fortune. Before starting farming in stone age, human just need to hunt and gather whole day to be alive, this time they don't have any time to compete and reason to compete. However, they got a time and a crop after starting farm work in the bronze age(There was a farm work in the stone age, but it was not that serious and successful to have a surplus crop.). Using bronze tools is definitely more handier than stone tools.
Personally I think competition to have a surplus crop in the latest stone age is the beginning of our possessions. And The bronze age is the period begin competition in earnest.
The first vestige of priest have been found in the bronze age. Which can mean that the first vestige of a tribal chief. Priest as a reader of brief adorned with bronze accessory. Bronze stuffs such as accessory and mirror was the most valuable thing at that period time.
So how could they get that kind of the most value things at that time? This is because they are a only way to increase their crops. Agricultural produce was the most powerful and important thing in the prehistoric age. Ancient religion is usually involved in a ceremony for weather and harvest. People in that time strongly believe that crop will have a increase by priest. That people totally believe that priest got a power from the sky to care them and control weather. People have to give them valuable things for their harvest. I think that this kind of community solidarity could encourage them to work hard with belief confidence by ceremony.
Real competition was starting after having an increase surplus crop reached the limit. Probably general public people start possess surplus crop and few bronze stuff, after they had a enough food and spare time. Territory would be not enough to population growth at that time. When it's starting to lack, their surplus food is not that much more than before. And they are starting to be anxious. General public's anxiety are also anxiety of class of rule. And they are starting to watch another tribals. And plundering started to get enough surplus again.
This is what I thought about origin of my question 'why all we are in competition'. I think that lacking of surplus was one of the reason we are in competition. An Evidence of the earliest war can be found in time between the latest stone age and the earliest bronze age in reality.
In addition, I think surplus possessions is also relate to have spare time to develop own technology. Having spare time caused them to try to do something is not relate to be alive for the present, but that trying to do something is not useful caused development. The stone age, The bronze age and the iron age. Which is process of developments are relate to spare time. In the stone age, they pick up stones which looks good to use. And after that period of time, they realized that they can grind and sharpen stones to use which took so much more time than picking up stones. Also, a melting point of bronze is 1000 degree and a melting point of iron is 1500 degree. Which means stage of developments in prehistoric age after the stone age are also relate to how long does it take a time to melt each materials.
In the stone age, people didn't have a time to care about melting something looks like a stone for them. After they get much more plenty food, they discovered that they can melt bronze what was just look like stones. Of course, it's not all people try to discover how to melt bronze when people have spare time to do what they want at that time, but even one person of hundred people who took their own time can get into a funny stone which is meltable.
To conclude, I got an answer of my question 'why are we all in competition?'. I think that we are in competition to have much more spare time to do what we want freely. And that freely spare time caused development. Even thought the standard of living balance could be unfair, the minimum standard of living has been increasing. We compete to have better life.
Real competition was starting after having an increase surplus crop reached the limit. Probably general public people start possess surplus crop and few bronze stuff, after they had a enough food and spare time. Territory would be not enough to population growth at that time. When it's starting to lack, their surplus food is not that much more than before. And they are starting to be anxious. General public's anxiety are also anxiety of class of rule. And they are starting to watch another tribals. And plundering started to get enough surplus again.
This is what I thought about origin of my question 'why all we are in competition'. I think that lacking of surplus was one of the reason we are in competition. An Evidence of the earliest war can be found in time between the latest stone age and the earliest bronze age in reality.
In the stone age, people didn't have a time to care about melting something looks like a stone for them. After they get much more plenty food, they discovered that they can melt bronze what was just look like stones. Of course, it's not all people try to discover how to melt bronze when people have spare time to do what they want at that time, but even one person of hundred people who took their own time can get into a funny stone which is meltable.
To conclude, I got an answer of my question 'why are we all in competition?'. I think that we are in competition to have much more spare time to do what we want freely. And that freely spare time caused development. Even thought the standard of living balance could be unfair, the minimum standard of living has been increasing. We compete to have better life.
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