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If two people apply for a job and both seek to serve to the best of their abilities, the one who loses out will not be mad or feel like he is lessened. He will recognize that the other person is better suited, and offers a greater service, and so increases the collective joy of humanity, which is the point. So it's win-win
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I hope you'l pardon me if I say that unless you are a saint or supremely enlightened, that nobody thinks that way (except the saints, etc), and nature doesn't work that way.
When something competes and loses it doesn't learn from the experience by experiencing joy - it learns from the experience by experiencing pain. It could have done better, but it didn't. It could have snatched the fish from the other bird, but it was too slow, and now it goes hungry- next time better fly faster! It could have studied more for the position, but didn't - next time study more.
Seriously and honestly - the last ten people in your life who came to you after losing a job interview to another candidate, or losing a race, or losing the girl they were chatting up to that other better-looking guy - how many of them were full of joy?
I'm not so ignorant that I don't understand the point, but saying what you just said with a straight face - I mean, if the end result of failure is joy, when the result of success if joy, why compete for anything? What's the motivation to human nature that moves us?