I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School
I’m so tired of this debate. Let me put it into perspective for you.
Let’s say your Dad founded a local store and ran it for 37 years. We’ll call it “XYZ”
XYZ was very popular around the city and most people in town loved it.
After 37 years of operation, XYZ lacked the resources it needed to improve in the current city. A new city offers to give your Dad all the resources necessary to build a new store and relocate.
Your Dad relocates XYZ to a new city/state but keeps the same branding for 2 years.
After 2 years, your Dad decides it’s time to rebrand to better fit the new city. Now called NTT
3 years after your Dad’s rebrand from XYZ to NTT, another man creates a store very similar to your Dad’s and it’s in the city where your Dad’s store was originally. We’ll call it XBC.
14 years after relocating the store and rebranding to NTT, your Dad passes away and the business passes down to you.
Now that you own the store, you occasionally have a day to celebrate the memory of your father and the original branding of the store. You have specific throwback days once every year or two.
13 years after your Dad’s passing, you decide to change the store colors back to a similar look of your Dad’s original store but you still keep the NTT name.
Throughout the years, the citizens of the city where the store XBC is located still claim that the colors/branding of XYZ should be used at XBC. They claim that the colors belong to the city even though it was your Dad’s business. They claim that your Dad leaving the city should have forced him to lose all rights to the branding of his store.
Would it be at all fair for a totally different man with a totally different store to steal your Dad’s branding just because the store is in the same location as your Dad’s when he first founded it?
The answer is it’s absolutely not fair and it pretty easy to understand. Amy Adams Strunk owns the business (Titans) that her Dad (Bud Adams) owned. Just because it’s in a new place with a new name, doesn’t give the “new store” (Texans) the right to claim the old branding.
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Erik Jones.
William Byron.
Christopher Bell.
Bubba Wallace.
None of these 4 drivers become crown jewel winners or even close to being the racers they are today if not for the mentorship of Kyle Busch and his former team, Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Opinion: It all started going bad when people began idolizing billionaires instead of treating them like the greedy, resource-hoarding, human-exploiting, planet-destroying sick fucks they really are.