competitive enigma

First I'll like to apologize to all my readers for taking so long to put up a post, I was plagued with two ridiculous examinations followed by a week and half of suffering from an unknown illness but now I'm back!

Speaking of sickness, in my textbook for pathology (pathos -suffering, logos- to study) I came across a quote that got me thinking.

"There is no escape: It seems that everything one does to earn a livelihood, to subsist, or to enjoy life turns out to be illegal, immoral, or fattening, or--most disturbing--possibly carcinogenic(cause cancer)"

So the gears in my head start to churn....If it is inevitable that potentially everything that we do is bad for us then living itself is essentially dying, no matter how you live. Or is the fact that our world is so competitive that in order to succeed most people knowingly or unknowingly put others down or take an opportunity that could have been someone else's.

These are two very compound questions and indeed a certain degree of truth to both of them but I think in the context of the the above quotes, the second question is one of direct relation. It reminded me of a quote by fabolous the rapper "when you take a chance ever wonder who you take it from".

It is no doubt that every job you get, someone doesn't get a job so they feel unfulfilled. When you gt accepted into an academic institution the same, in sports same, an election same, wars are even worse because everyone suffers. It seems inevitable in every aspect of society that competition plays a role. The thing about competition is that there is a winner and loser and in the grand scheme of thing, people do not usually make a choice to lose at life(no matter what their personal definition is of winning and losing)

It seems that having 'limited resources' play a part in creating this competitiveness that turns out to be detrimental to all. But at the same time could there be a world without competition? And in the case that such a paradigm existed, would it be without war and fraudulence? would everyone be healthy? I guess the only thing for certain is it will be a much different place than our current world.