From the perspective of a 76er, Jimmy Butler seems like a servant of Moloch.
The 76ers are NBA players. They’ve worked to their limits all throughout high school and college to get there. Now they’re semi-wealthy and semi-famous and still pretty young. I can completely understand why they think it’s time to enjoy life.* The cheerleaders are right there, for crying out loud.
If Jimmy Butler got his way, some of them would start working harder. They’d get recognition in the short run, but pretty quickly it would become a culture where the higher standard of effort was obligatory. They would all do more of what they don’t enjoy and less of what they do enjoy. They might win more games, for what that’s worth. They would get little of value for the extra sacrifice. So they don’t.
*Keeping in mind that even a “lazy” NBA player is well within the top 1% of Americans for physical effort.
From the perspective of a 76er, Jimmy Butler seems like a servant of Moloch.
The 76ers are NBA players. They’ve worked to their limits all throughout high school and college to get there. Now they’re semi-wealthy and semi-famous and still pretty young. I can completely understand why they think it’s time to enjoy life.* The cheerleaders are right there, for crying out loud.
If Jimmy Butler got his way, some of them would start working harder. They’d get recognition in the short run, but pretty quickly it would become a culture where the higher standard of effort was obligatory. They would all do more of what they don’t enjoy and less of what they do enjoy. They might win more games, for what that’s worth. They would get little of value for the extra sacrifice. So they don’t.
*Keeping in mind that even a “lazy” NBA player is well within the top 1% of Americans for physical effort.