Nature & physical reality are completely INDIFFERENT. Competition is a mathematical outcome. So is cooperation
Both cooperation and competition are mathematically emergent from having autonomous {carbon molecular} units. Fundamentally, life is anti-entropic because it concentrated energy purposefully locally. Overall, the universe runs down and even our actions are net entropic (to wit: global warming). Society is anti-entropic within itself. Narcissicism is also anti-entropic for one person but very much entropic in the wider picture.
Our bodies are beautifully cooperating cells and structures. Society has both cooperation and competition.
Focusing on the existence of competition is circling the drain. I am not encouraged to read the article on the basis of the premise provided (that the universe might "be against us". To a large extent I wonder why I should care when there is so little time and so much beauty and wonder to enjoy about the universe; so much to do to help ourselves and others.
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