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Competitive waste is the cost of competing as opposed to collaborating. Examples of competitive waste are:

Patents
Proprietary development and trade secrets. Standard product development where many independent agents make variations of the same product, as opposed to collaborating to increase the overall quality of the product. Working to be the best as opposed to uplifting everyone. This is also known as reinventing the wheel - the natural human tendency to become possessive of information, claiming it as their own invention - as opposed to standing on the shoulders of giants.
Protectionism
Design for obsolescence
Advertising
Military establishment
Many regulations in industry. This needs to be discussed specifically. Examples below.
Long food miles
Low quality education - when teachers and students are alienated from meaningful learning because of mis-directed requirements that lead towards the mainstream economy. This is naturally alienating - and is considered part of competitive waste because the mainstream economy is founded on largely unhealthy competition. Education is rarely about empowering the individual, but instead - about making people fit into a pathological system.

Research Papers

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 #Many regulations in industry. This needs to be discussed specifically. Examples below.
 #Long food miles
-#Low quality education - when teachers and students are alienated from meaningful learning because of mis-directed requirements that lead towards the mainstream economy. This is naturally alienating - and is considered part of competitive waste because the mainstream economy is founded on largely unhealthy competition.
+#Low quality education - when teachers and students are alienated from meaningful learning because of mis-directed requirements that lead towards the mainstream economy. This is naturally alienating - and is considered part of competitive waste because the mainstream economy is founded on largely unhealthy competition. Education is rarely about empowering the individual, but instead - about making people fit into a pathological system.