Is It Basketball, or Socialism?

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The NY Times looks at how the NBA keeps rich teams from using their wealth advantage to rig the sytem in order to keep the league competitive, and uses that as a lense to look at income inequality and the role of redistributive policies in America in creating a fair playing field.

kyrie irving made waves asserting that the players could form their own league and keep all the profits for themselves.

he elides how difficult that would be, even for a bunch of millionaires, in the face of a bigger bunch of billionaires and the massive power structures behind them, but i applaud him for having the gall to put it on the table.

it takes the likes of an extraordinary talent like michael jordan to break the color barrier of nba owners, whereas white folks can just inherit teams and/or the wealth to buy them.

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