Anti-competition cultural universals have hurt world economy.

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Brasspen

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There is this thing I call anti-competition cultural universal that is in the whole world right now. It's a way of reducing competition in any business. Some of those include artwork, cooking, weaving, crochet, spinning yarn, carpentry, wood working, car mechanic, Christian Preacher, and more.

For example, lets say I am a professional egg cooker. I cook eggs for people and earn a living doing it. Using anti-competition cultural universal, I can make people give up before they become competition.

The no reward idea. We want to cook the eggs so that we can earn money. By cooking eggs we can enjoy cooking, feeding people, and getting paid. But, lets say the professional chef tells you this. "There is no money in it. If you are going to cook eggs for money, give up, you are going to fail. A real reason for cooking eggs is not for money, but because you really love cooking eggs." By telling you that your time and effort will result in vain, you give up.

The very complex and big explanation of what is needed. You start out learning how to cook an egg to get started in the craft. Then, a professional chef says to you. "Are you willing to take the time to learn everything that has to be learned? You have to know how much oil, and how much oil to use to get it right. You have to know all the correct spices and ingredients, along with their correct ratio to make an egg that is even good enough. You also have to know the right temperature, and for how long. I have seen so many amateur eggs, that it would make a dog puke. It takes a professional many many years to be able to just get a simple basic cooked egg." Now it looks like the learning curve is so big, so long, that you might never be able to even get started.

Then there is yet another one I want to share. The critic dog punishment method. Lets so you just learned the basics of cooking eggs, but you want someone to eat the egg, tasting it for feed back, a focused critic. The professional chef eats it and says, "This is the worst tasting egg I have ever had. The salt and pepper is way off. It lacks the fluffy that a good quality cooked egg should have. How much oil did you use in it? It looks like your egg was swimming in oil. I highly recommend you get a better frying pan, using those old antique cast iron is only going to make things harder for you. You have a long way to go before you are good enough to work as a cook making eggs." The idea behind this one, is to punish you for your efforts. Because you get punished for making the egg, it makes you quit. The professinal chef will always give you negative feedback.


These are the things I have suffered from the world when attempting to learn a skill to use for income.