Co-operation

Since the world is a relational whole, things operate "together" in some relation. People may say that Apple and Google are not cooperating, since they are in competition, but they evidently do—such as when they both agree to a standard, either in negotiation purely between themselves or through the instigation of a third party, such as a committee on technical standards. It is typical to say that they in some sense do not cooperate, since they are different businesses competing for market share, but it would at least be wrong to say that they do not co-operate, since they do operate together in the same market. What is contested here is not if they co-operate, but how and to what degree. When the context history is examined, it indeed becomes evident that ‘cooperation’ and ‘co-operation’ are relatively different concepts, although they overlap. It is at least productive and exact to differentiate between them, as is typical already. To further avoid confusion, some may chose to make a new concept, such as ‘meta-operation’; since two players in a market that have expanded it have undeniably had a unifying or convergent effect in that market, each influencing the pathways that they both utilize, even though one or the other may be first created it, even with the intention of over-ruling the other. For example, when looking at the history of the video game console market of the 90's, dominated by Nintendo, Sega and Sony, this can be discovered. Nintendo to some degree creates a market, users becoming used to having and buying video game items for their home, which sets the stage for the operation of Sega, in that Nintendo has already done some of the work which Sega would otherwise have to do. They may not have cooperated very much, but they co-operated. Their convergent effect can thus be said to be a para-operation.
== Rhizomata ==
* Operation; Working Together;
* Co; Operation; Cooperation; Correlation; Contrast; Control; AI synthesis; Post-species cooperation
* Co-Work; Sociology; Altruism; Team-Work; Teamwork; Solidarity; Labor Rights
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