"Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20."

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..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.

— Friedrich August von Hayek