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I think that may be a moot point if you move from an individual level to a societal level. Like, the positive effects that their success in baseball has on the

I think that may be a moot point if you move from an individual level to a societal level. Like, the positive effects that their success in baseball has on the Dominican Republic would likely also be there if they would commit that hard to basketball, or chess (and maybe that would come with less knee injuries). Yet, it's still correct to say that baseball is hugely beneficial to the DomRep. My larger point being that we have to disentangle "what should you do on your evenings" and "what is a good cultural approach to this issue"

_heimdall 2y ago
> My larger point being that we have to disentangle "what should you do on your evenings" and "what is a good cultural approach to this issue" Those are actually one in the same for me, or at least two parts of the same answer. People should spend their evenings however they want as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. I'd be very concerned with any cultural approach to changing behavior, basically "Nudge" with a different name. Culture should be the byproduct of the collective people, a retrospective understanding of what the people already are. Culture shouldn't be a tool for manipulation in my opinion.