I see competition as a great thing. This is where I will @stellabelle because this is the competition story I was meaning to tell in another thread that got too many replies deep. I was in New Orleans and on Frenchman's st, where all the music is. I walked towards the end and saw 2 hipsters with typewriters propped up on wooden boxes or little makeshift desks. They had a sign saying "Poets for hire." So I said "Oh are you guys competing? Is this like a dueling pianos situation?" They immediately got indignant and said "Why would you assume we're competing. How capitalist of you." And I just stood there blinking my eyes that someone with a "For hire" sign would then bemoan capitalism. But also that any artist could not understand that just how they framed themselves, it naturally drew a comparison.

TLDR competition is great. And it's even better when you guys work together constructively.