Goodhart's Law, but We Already Spent All Our Money

Here is how to make any sports fan angry. Basketball is just a bunch of grown men bouncing a ball and throwing it into a basket. Football is a bunch of grown men running on grass trying to kick a ball into a net, yes that football. And baseball... Oh boy, baseball. I've used these lines many times to piss people off and to justify my complete lack of athletic feats. But the counter-argument I always get is that football is a multi-billion-dollar industry, or that a specific player makes more money than I will ever see in a lifetime. If I counter that video games are just for kids, because of course I'd say that, I get a similar response: Video games make more money than all of these sports combined. It's all true. But nobody is telling me why basketball is important. Nobody tells me how good the game is, how people bond over it, how it brings a community together, or that it is simply healthy to stay active. Whether it's basketball, football, video games, or (God forgive me) baseball,…

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