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What a crazy coincidence that my newly formed book club chose this as our inaugural choice and then, literally just yesterday, finished Fall of Hyperion.

I appreciate you Dan Simmons. I’m sorry people no longer get to experience your imagination.

I didn’t watch but based on the GN video, It’s not about protecting anyone. The reason is to tie your account to a real name to monetize it better. They are likely near an IPO or looking for acquisition. In the latter case, that means any “promises” are null and void.

Wow I’m old.

Probably a lot of pressure to win now. 2nd highest payroll in the league. Roll the dice.

Rebuilding. Again.

Neither of your responses are negating any of my points. Imagine believing the owner of a company makes or even vets all decisions. I don’t even understand your second response. There’s no morality in capitalism. Doubly so for a passive investment.

Shame anyone you want for their hypocrisy. Just don’t believe for a second that sports players somehow have a higher, let alone equivocal, morality than the layman. But, as stated in a comment below much better than I’ve been able to articulate, investments aren’t moral for anyone. Rich, sports players aren’t on some pedestal.

That seems kind of silly then. The entertainment industry has been rife with immorality forever. Sports players are literally selling their bodies to the highest bidder. It honestly makes sense a player would employ a company/person to get every dollar possible. NBA in particular is selling itself to the gambling industry. They aren’t exactly creating a moral refuge.

The idea of investing morally is minority concept and is honestly at odds with the whole modern capitalist idea of investment.

The amount of people that have gotten rich from sports is infinitesimally small compared to the total of rich people that exist. Yes, Playing sports well doesn’t equate to being morally wrong or right. I’m gonna assume the question wasn’t directed at only that tiny group of people.

I will add that, in the vast majority of cases, people don’t invest money morally.

How do you think they became rich in the first place?

My introduction was Night Witches by Sabaton.

Idgi. Credit rolls don’t cost that much time or effort.

No shipping to the US (everything else is ok) in case someone wanted to order prints like I did.

The wrx has been a passenger car for awhile. The STI is the enthusiast rally car. WRX is basically the civic si or the golf gti. On second thought maybe not even that far.

This has been on my list for awhile but every time I look at used books, it’s not on the shelves.

Neuromancer was one of the first sci-fi books I ever read and it convinced me the genre was worth reading.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

But they have gaming divisions which are technically their own companies. This chart js definitely cherry-picking. I didn’t even mention that “gaming” is highly subjective already. There’s more than just MS & Sony missing from this chart.