Comments on: Productivity Draining of Sports (and Personal Finance Links)

By: flipspiceland

flipspiceland — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:46:42 +0000

Actually, any activity that ‘drains away production by individuals’ is great for the economy.

Not so great for a corporation’s p & l. But the bigget ones have been making historic amounts of money.

The sports fan production system works like this:

Fan a gets 20 hours of work done in a task that requires 40 hours. So that’s 20 hours of necessary work that doesn’t get done. That in turn leads to the affected corporation hiring, recruiting and training more peeps, reducing the amount of slackers in the economy. They in turn get paid, pay taxes, and pump up the economy.

Slam dunk, Party on all you organized sports fanatics. It’s patriotic, selfless, and if you would just forget about wearing those Cheesehead hats, and Monster Foam Fingers the cutural and artistic aesthetic would be served as well.

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:55:51 +0000

Thank you for the link! Glad you liked the post.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:14:16 +0000

The obvious solution is to renounce the foul Boston teams and embrace the good, pure and true: the Yankees, the Jets, and the Rangers. And, I guess, the Nets, Islanders, Devils and Giants, although I don’t care as much about them.

I’d like to insert a jab about the Magic over the Celtics here, but I don’t really care that much about the NBA. I guess I’d prefer the Celtics over the Lakers. That might be the only pro-Boston pick I’d make.

Thanks for the link ;)

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:45:32 +0000

There’s a lot of good football in Latin America during the offseason? I guess you learn something new every day.

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:49:15 +0000

I’ve heard that said about football. I buy into the theory for football, not so much for baseball.

By: kosmo @ The Casual Observer

kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:05:07 +0000

Baseball season never ends – it just moves to different phases. The “off-season” features a lot of good ball in Latin America, as well arbitration and free agency. :)