I believe in cooperation and find competition breeds aggressive, selfish people with a cutthroat attitude who put too much value on money and popularity which devalues and dehumanizes everyone outside their small circle of care so I would at first choose A but having seen so many lazy welfare junkies ruining it for those who actually need and deserve the help, I'm inclined to go with B (also because I'm a pessimist, life's not easy, boo-hoo...fire under your ass is motivating etc.)
I believe we're beyond post scarcity and the lack of global cooperation in favor of competition is used as an excuse to make another excuse people call "human nature"...
One-upmanship (competition) isn't human nature and neither is cooperation. Choosing convenience over prudence isn't human nature either, it just shows people haven't been bit in the ass for not planning ahead yet. Competition is vehemently encouraged and that's why its so pervasive. People are so sucked up into popular culture that they choose not to look outside what they believe because its uncomfortable, therefore dismissed. We rely on the few innovators to have a trickle-down effect to improve our lives and if those innovations risk making some beaurocracy redundant or cost big businesses money those beauraus and companies will fight to have it snuffed. The definition of a scoundrel is someone who puts themselves ahead of humanity and not enough people see it as holding back their part of the potential for humanity by propogating what works instead of chasing their potential for impovement. It comes down to our experiences, how they color our attitudes and opinions and whether we're motivated enough. Needless to say too few are motivated enough to make significant, positive change at a rate that's encouraging and this is understandable considering they get labeled as eccentric, fanatics, dangerous to the economy and are fought tooth and nail in an uphill battle by well armed companies. That's okay, mother nature has her remedies and they are seldom gentle.
Precious and fragile things
Need special handling
My god, what have we done to you?