I like categorization because it lets me think more clearly. I don't see the world exactly as I describe it in my categories, but I see elements of them inside everything. Like with extrovertedness/introvertedness, noone possesses 100% of personality qualities of an introvert or an extrovert, but rarely can we find someone with a 50/50 balance too. The same is with these personality types here. It's only a tool to understand reality, not the ultimate explanation.
Competitive
Competitive types use the success of other people as fuel to fire their own. In the competition they are playing fair, as opposed to the parasitic type. For the competitive type, other people are proof that they can become better.
This type is full of male spirit and is most common in the high-paying workplaces. At first, competition acts stimulative for all players. Later, all weak players become disincentivized to continue playing, while the competition of all becomes a competition of the few. We can see this in any business possible - from YouTube and bitcoin mining to waste management and politics. Every big business eventually becomes a competition of 2-5 players - big firms, organizations or people.
If we incentivize people to compete with each other, we will never have true decentralization.
Competitive spirit is very good for business, but not for governance or money issuing due to the fact that it cannot remain decentralized when scaled.
Cooperative
The cooperative spirit wants equality of services and favours - you do something for me and I do something for you. That is the essence, although in practice it looks a little different. If our goal is the same and both of us can achieve it at the same time, we are better of by helping each other as opposed to fair competition.
Although the cooperative type is good at team work, it sucks at making everyone do their best. Cooperation is great in small communities and businesses. It is also good for governance as we need to make sure everyone agrees with what we want the rules of the society to be.
Innovative
This is my absolute favorite. The innovative type pushes through boundaries, he makes the very concept of impossible obsolete. Not only that, but he makes the unimaginable real. Before Nikola Tesla, people didn't ever think electricity could be used in such ways.
“The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By it's means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste. By its means, he will obtain at any place and in any desired amount, the energy of remote waterfalls – to drive his machinery, to construct his canals, tunnels and highways, to manufacture the materials of his want, his clothing and food, to heat and light his home – year in, year out, ever and ever, by day and by night. It will make the living glorious sun his obedient, toiling slave. It will bring peace and harmony on earth.” – Nikola Tesla
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The innovative mindset requires an understanding of reality, the boundaries of the physical world, but also the mindset that anything can be done (if you have the knowledge and the means)...
All innovative people have a spark of the visionary hidden in their hearts. Tesla often spoke about how he imagined the future world. While his vision might be 100% true, it is still not a reality because other people didn't want it to be.
In my view, we should incentivize the innovative mindset a lot more because the competitive and the parasitic can hinder it's growth.
The parasites and the saprophytes
The dark side I will leave for another article, for a fresh mind and a new day...
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