The Sunday Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Sunday Akron Beacon Journal are almost facsimiles, showing the same front page, the same sports, the same comics, even the same coupon inserts. To return to cars, given a price bracket the actual consumer cost is negligible from one model to another, and the differences in visual design are even slimmer. In fact, the more competitive they become the more identical they look. Flipping the coin, a visit to the supermarket will show that, except for house brands, and despite the cosmetic differences in packaging, it's a matter of one price fits all. And the same holds true for the automakers, along with every other oligarchical group.
Competition is great in sport and art.
It might well have a place in business. Although big business uses television to promulgate it as a sacred American credo, the very absence of competition is the reality, and a very sad one at that. If the pernicious media spent even a tenth of its time promoting cooperation as it does competition, the sun's light would make everyone's secret little room more livable. Meanwhile, I do believe the forecast calls for more rain. Success Success American-style means making as much money as possible while expending the least effort needed to accomplish this goal.