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Comments - 013. MAKE ADULTS COMPETITIVE AGAIN

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based takes! was just laughing with a friend of mine about how "athleisure" as a style has become completely untethered from actually being athletic, just pure signaling in many cases. Also maybe a broader philosophical point, but I come away from this feeling like we lose a lot as a culture by not allowing people to "lose." That's where all the growth & magic happens in a person's life. No bueno. You can only lose if you compete! This is an argument for making things more competitive not punishing or discouraging people for losing! BASED LOVE IT. As a former competitive athlete, my observation of running clubs is most people are just seeking community and trying to make friends/partners in a healthy medium. The demise of the 3rd space and social media ruining IRL interactions have led to these things popping up everywhere. Net positive at the end. When 70% of the population is overweight or obese, when the majority of healthcare costs are due to lifestyle diseases, and these healthcar

I never comment on substack posts, but this one is just absolutely silly? I can think of multiple reasons that this is just completely and utterly wrong: 1) being wrong factually about the state of competition in the US 2)Having no clue what athletic excellence entails 3) Completely missing the emergent virtues of competition and 4) (Most minorly) not understanding the point of expensive leisure wear. For the first point, We have sufficient competitive athletic spaces in the U.S. - it's a whole meme on the traditionalist right about how travel ball competes with going to church on Sunday.…

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