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And that's the other key point. Although there is an infinite amount of basketball points available, you can only award them when games are played. And then on
by neilwilson 5y ago
And that's the other key point.
Although there is an infinite amount of basketball points available, you can only award them when games are played. And then only at a value that people have agreed is reasonable according to the agreed rules of the games decided by the game's authorities.
In monetary terms, the spending stops automatically when there is no longer anything to buy at a price worth paying.
The argument is never "we can't afford it", the argument is always "it's too expensive".
- syki 5y agoI think you don’t understand. There isn’t an infinite amount of points available in basketball in a similar there isn’t an infinite amount of money available. Each particle in the observable universe can contain only a finite amount of information and therefore there can’t be an infinite amount of money or basketball points because each requires “information”. It’s all constrained by the finite number of particles in the observable universe.
- dredmorbius 5y agoAgain: scoring events != awardable points. There is no bound on points. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29663864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29663864
- syki 5y agoYou can’t store a value that requires more storage than is available in the observable universe.
- dredmorbius 5y agoRed herring in this context.