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the rise of sports analytics is
the customary American process of controlling someone else’s American Dream. Prioritizing efficiency over creativity by monitoring the workforce to divert even more profits for owners and shareholders by “quantifying the labor” in a way that squeezes every last drop out of the people actually doing the work.
✏️ Clear parallels with labor surveillance. Money is the be all that ends all, and people are merely the resources to get that money. So surveil them, optimize them and squeeze every last drop out of them. 🔗 View Highlight
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Even in the context of professional sports, money is the bottom line, and every player is expendable.
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But like The Big Short and Lewis’s 2014 book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, which position a handful of rogue traders and financial analysts as protagonists, Moneyball turns the managers into players to root for.
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what about those other scrappy underdogs? Rather than encouraging us to consider the ways in which baseball players themselves are exploited as laborers