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No NBA player may score more than 100 points per season. After reaching this cap they may only pass the ball.
by frabjoused 3y ago
No NBA player may score more than 100 points per season. After reaching this cap they may only pass the ball.
- jdiff 3y agoYou score points. No one has ever earned a billion dollars.
- MightyBuzzard 3y ago[dead]
- nh23423fefe 3y agoOnly if you lie about the meaning of "earn"
- missedthecue 3y agoWho did JK Rowling steal her billion from?
- ebb_earl_co 3y ago*Whom did I suppose some people would say all of the workers who manufactured the glue and binding for the books and harvest the trees that constitute the books, and the truck drivers and ship captains who sent her books around the world. The causality is beyond me, but if I could steel man someone on that side of the argument, I think it’s that
- missedthecue 3y agoIf she made most of her money from ebooks would she be stealing it from Michael Hart, the inventor of .epub file format? Or what? At some point we have to admit this is ridiculous.
- leothecool 3y agoWe should make a wealth shot clock. Nobody is allowed to hold an asset for more than a few seconds.
- patrickmay 3y agoJust make money radioactive. Problem solved.
- Draiken 3y agoWhat an outrageous analogy. Let's compare a competitive game to a complex system that rules the lives of basically all humans.
- frabjoused 3y agoLife is a game. If basketball rules sucked, far less would play and definitely not at its current scale. If you block the game of capitalism you stunt all of the growth and innovation that comes with it. It’s how people tick.
- Draiken 3y agoSure you have similarities with a competitive game and life, but that's simply not enough to say that they're the same. People can and will do things in games that you don't do in life because... it's just a game. > If you block the game of capitalism you stunt all of the growth and innovation that comes with it. It’s how people tick. Where's the evidence for that? People help each other much more than they hurt each other, despite the common perception. What kind of sucker helps his adversaries? Because a few people with power want to exploit everyone else, we somehow assume that everyone is like that. It's simply not true. When we keep reinforcing these "winner takes all" scenarios we're playing into the hands of those few that truly believe that's how the world works. People cooperate and we only got here in the first place was through cooperation. If this capitalism mentality existed back then, our species would have simply died. Now we survived, thrived and forgot that our real strength is in communities, not individuals. The individualist capitalism mentality got people with hook, line and sinker. Most can't even comprehend that there are different ways.
- ben_w 3y ago> Where's the evidence for that? All the other things we've tried. > People help each other much more than they hurt each other, despite the common perception. What kind of sucker helps his adversaries? Is just as true within capitalism as communism, for example. Likewise feudalism, theocracy, anarchy. > People cooperate and we only got here in the first place was through cooperation. Yes. > If this capitalism mentality existed back then, our species would have simply died. No. Why did I split these two up like this? Because capitalism only functions through cooperation (hence the etymology of "corporations"); and because "winner-takes-all" was the dominant behaviour that our species has displayed as far back as archeology shows, with our God-kings, slavery, and evidence of mass brutality before the invention of writing.