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Reminds of the cycling world. Boundaries are pushed with doping and in order to stay competitive, after a while everyone is doping until the whole thing collaps
by wellboy 11y ago
Reminds of the cycling world. Boundaries are pushed with doping and in order to stay competitive, after a while everyone is doping until the whole thing collapses.
The same thing goes for bodybuilding, anyone has another example?
- saint_fiasco 11y agoCapitalism. One of the Marxist critiques of capitalism is that if an employer wants to do certain good things (like treat his workers well, pay more salaries than the bare minimum, take care of the environment and so on) he can't do that because that will raise the price of whatever he is selling and he would be outcompeted by his less altruistic rivals and go bankrupt. So every business owner has to be a bit of a psychopath to survive.
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoCliffbar lavishes perks on their employees and they seem to get by selling commodity food products. The problem is when the people at the top take everything for themselves and leave nothing behind. Issuing public stock induces the worst of this sort of behavior due to the need to market the company to investors on the single line item of profitability.