Competition is an a posteriori fix for capitalism and selfishness, if your objective is not to try to extract all possible profit out of it there would be no issue with a monopoly. Cooperation is far better than competition. Under competition you might have an extra effort of the parts to get the scarce price but in cooperation you get synergies. Imagine if each company or country would have to develop the whole of science by themselves. There is value in trying out different strategies but we want to share the learnings in the end.