The only thing that is worth winning is a game. I tend to like to win at Taboo.
When we try to win at other things - important things - like justice, schools, business, MINISTRY, family, friends, life... all we do is turn them into games. And they are so much more important than that.
(The last two times I played Taboo, I got the word "flaccid." That one was difficult, but I was vulgar, and still got the point for my team.)
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Price gouging - wrong, good, necessary? At the onset, one might rage with emotion at the thought of a Mississippi resident paying a 200% inflated price for a life-saving gas generator. However, a noble peace prize economist would explain that price gouging is a necessary good - for generators would not make it to Mississippi, if there was not enough financial incentive for Bob's Hardware in Ohio, to pack up 10 generators and drive them down there.
In the same, way, sport and business, are bettered, more advanced by performaced-based competition. And, although not from the onset, so it art. Music is judged on sound quality, pitch, and numerous other standards of "excellence." Photography by the rule of 3's. Sketch by the use of contrast. And art as a whole, by its ability to portray reality, or non-reality, in a manner that is palliative to the mind and senses. Oh-no, art is not an vaccuum for competition, rather it just plays by a different set of "rules."
Returning to competition-fueled advancement, is there value to such an process? It betterment good? And if so what kind? What is God's thought on competition or advacement? Does his commandment to Adam to rule the earth and create dominion over it condemn or condone competition/advancement. Is grace, art? No. Grace is competition.
Grace is an objective solution, to a problem created by prescribed law, defined by true boundaries, solved in time and space, for the purpose of increasing the glory and reverence of one being. God. God is in competition to receive most glory. And He will win.
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