This involves market rationality. Market rationality vs social rationality. Emphasis is placed on the realization of exchange value. In other words, if you snooze you loose. Competition involves winning and losing.
Winners tend to grow and losers disappear.
Productivity levels are themselves dependent on the relationship between labor and matter as a function of the use of means of production by the application of energy and knowledge. Increases in surplus result from quantitative increases in labor and means of production, including land. Source of increasing surplus lies in the introduction of new energy sources and in the quality of the use of such energy. One of processing in which telecommunications and computers are strategic for the exchange of information and technology. Source of increasing productivity lies in the quality of knowledge.