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This is a little low effort for my taste, it's a well know concept and just linking the Wikipedia with no additional commentary doesn't seem particularly worthy

This is a little low effort for my taste, it's a well know concept and just linking the Wikipedia with no additional commentary doesn't seem particularly worthy content. I'd be interested in an article comparing companies to the Ship of Theseus, is Apple of 2022 still the same Apple of 2010 or 2000? What makes a company a company? What gives a company its identity? The people, the values? What happens when 100% of the original people are no longer there, is it still the same company?

ARandomerDude 4y ago
I’ve thought this about sports teams too. You’ll meet diehard, lifelong fans of a team even though the players and coaches have completely turned over a few times in their lifetime. What exactly is the team they love? I don’t point this out to my friends obviously, for fear of being rude.
- _mitterpach 4y ago
  Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify, because the players are always changing, the team can move to another city. You're actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it. You know what I mean? You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt; they hate him now. Boo! Different shirt! Boo! - Jerry Seinfeld
- worstestes 4y ago
  I think that while the original composition of the team changes the traditions, attitudes and strategy definitely translates across the different generations of players, coaches and staff. It’d be different if a team was completely cycled through to a new set of members every period of time.
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ofrzeta 4y ago
This was discussed here today with Atari https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905910 and probably the inspiration for posting the WP article.

ARandomerDude 4y ago

I’ve thought this about sports teams too. You’ll meet diehard, lifelong fans of a team even though the players and coaches have completely turned over a few times in their lifetime. What exactly is the team they love? I don’t point this out to my friends obviously, for fear of being rude.

_mitterpach 4y ago
Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify, because the players are always changing, the team can move to another city. You're actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it. You know what I mean? You are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt; they hate him now. Boo! Different shirt! Boo! - Jerry Seinfeld
worstestes 4y ago
I think that while the original composition of the team changes the traditions, attitudes and strategy definitely translates across the different generations of players, coaches and staff. It’d be different if a team was completely cycled through to a new set of members every period of time.
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ofrzeta 4y ago

This was discussed here today with Atari https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905910 and probably the inspiration for posting the WP article.