Marxism-Luthenism-Nemikism

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@CBSEveningNews Oh, we're going somewhere

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@ValetVespa @TheOneButlerian "process, choice, discernment, perspective, + experience" are as potential sources/requirements for art is rigid??
😆 all you have to do to clear that bar is be a sentient lifeform and intentionally do anything, and it could clear it, as long as it's you actually doing it

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@ValetVespa @TheOneButlerian My rigidity??

You're the one reducing it to an input/output machine process

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@T__Bone13 @TVtrafficCop @DTG616 @tipping_pitches You ask when the last time a 20th-ranked payroll won the WS, and I ask you: when was the last time a 21st-ranked payroll won?

Spending more allows for better talent on the field + more enjoyable experience.
That's what matters, not maximizing revenue for an owner to take home

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@T__Bone13 @TVtrafficCop @DTG616 @tipping_pitches No, you're just applying an unreasonably high bar to judge worthwhileness of spending more by owners. A sub $120M payroll is scaps, not failing to win the WS every season.

And even if you want to use that dumb bar: why own a team if you're not winning a WS, then?

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@ValetVespa @TheOneButlerian CGI is still done by a human making specific choices to a specific end.

Art isn't just input/output. It's process, choice, discernment, perspective, experience; things code doesn't (and can't) have, and if offshored by the artist to a machine, belies and makes vapid the "ouput"

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@schmieder83 @GRIFTLESS @gyykdx44ng @dhbytes @tipping_pitches It'll put a better product on the field WHICH IS THE POINT

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@schmieder83 @DTG616 @tipping_pitches No they didn't. They went bankrupt because the owners lost money on other business ventures or a combo of divorce and vanity projects

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@schmieder83 @DTG616 @tipping_pitches They didn't go bankrupt because of baseball spending

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@mvmulberry @TheOneButlerian @RealGDT No, you (or rather your ai) misread me. The point is he didn't need $10M to make influential art. Kane Parsons is proof that anyone who has interesting ideas and wants to can make influential art. Outsourcing your creativity is the opposite of that and actually makes it harder

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@T__Bone13 @TVtrafficCop @DTG616 @tipping_pitches Why is winning a WS the benchmark for weather owner-spending is worthwhile?

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@schmieder83 @DTG616 @tipping_pitches No other company is allowed an overt monopoly like pro sports franchises and cry poverty at the same time

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@schmieder83 @dhbytes @gyykdx44ng @tipping_pitches 1. That's reported, paper revenue

2. You're going to have to do more work to prove the point re impossible to reach league average revenue

3. This idea that payroll has to be tied to revenue is a lie from the owners, and it's based on nothing

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@dhbytes @gyykdx44ng @schmieder83 @tipping_pitches Right, these aren't normal businesses. They operate more like money printing machines, are monopolies, and basically impossible to lose value

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@GRIFTLESS @gyykdx44ng @dhbytes @schmieder83 @tipping_pitches Who's saying they have to match LAD?
People *are* saying there's no excuse to run a $80M payroll

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@dhbytes @gyykdx44ng @schmieder83 @tipping_pitches How do you increase revenue? In basically any other business, it's acknowledged that you probably have to spend more money if you want to make more money. Why is sports different?

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@pitt_propaganda @tipping_pitches Roster payroll is double deductible-eligible for business and personal reporting. So even if an owner spends an extra $200M, they get to then use that to decrease their tax burden both against team-reported revenue AND personal income

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@schmieder83 @DTG616 @tipping_pitches Anything these teams say about revenue is simply PR. It's basically impossible for any major-4 pro US sports franchise to lose money

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@T__Bone13 @TVtrafficCop @DTG616 @tipping_pitches Of course it does.
The Dodgers $400M allows them to make more mistakes than a $150M roster and still excell, but it doesn't necessarily mean more Ws, and $150M can buy quite few Ws than $100M if you're smart

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@OpenedCreation @MattShel1989 @rock_climber02 Because that's bunk

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@RipcordJack @mvmulberry @TheOneButlerian @RealGDT Oh absolutely, it's just hilarious how wrong the above sentiment is even if you restrict the conversation to only the Backrooms