And compassion, cooperation, and synergy can be found in our current system of competitive capitalism. This is a numbers game. It's all about the statistics. When every project is open source saying "everyone is helping everyone" isn't ridiculous.
If an EOS platform comes out that completely blows Steem out of the water pretty much everyone on the planet wins except for Steem whales who are exploiting the system. Sounds like a good trade to me.