No national anthem at Mavs game

[KillerLeft]

History has shown the exact opposite to be true.  Every time a resource is said to be running out we either find more through innovation (oil, food), find substitutes (natural gas, solar, hydrogen), or increase efficiency, again through innovation.  The biggest problem with socialism is that it doesn't promote innovation, so it exacerbates those issues, it doesn't fix them.

It's true that capitalism leads to innovation, especially from the best of us. No argument there, and I'm not anti-capitalist. Far from it. I love this country's history, even the shameful parts of it, and I'm proud to be an American. 

But, if you pay attention when you're out and about today, you'll see very quickly that the best of us aren't multiplying at nearly the rate as the average, and that's a view on a country where certain levels of education and privilege are still easily attainable. The average people drink water, eat food and live on land. The best of us are currently trying to figure out who will own all of the drinkable water on the planet in 50 years, while the average are trying to figure who we can get for Kristaps Porzingis on the trade market. At SOME point, the conclusion of this will be that the only way to "win" is to murder people from different places. I don't mean that hyperbolically at all. 

I didn't mean to stop the discussion down with this, sorry. We should probably keep it to the anthem. My point is that sometimes we focus on the details of change rather than the big picture.

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I fundamentally disagree. I think he is making a business decision:

1) He knows the international community is the ultimate future cash cow for the NBA.

2) He knows that he can avoid future scandal around the national anthem by biting the bullet now (and getting some flack) and in the process eliminating a context for future scandal.

Follow the money. This is a long term angle and investment based on his read of markets, etc.

Absolutely.