Doug Winterburn wrote:

However you want to mandate it, MRI machines are just a way companies
ensure some of their profit making practices bear fruit. Nothing else
and certainly not as a means so athletes stay healthy enough to
volunteer and change the landscape of charity. They're strictly there
to protect athletes and have extremely little trickle down effect to
volunteering.

You've been smoking something too much.


You sound as if you think a football team owning a MRI machine is
somehow taking away education for hundreds of pregnant mothers and
dooming them to dismal futures. Life isn't a zero sum game.

Of coure you're correct. The Communist and, to a lesser degree, the
socialist and liberal believe that the size of the pie is fixed and the size
of the slices needs to be adjusted, regularized, or re-cut so that everybody
has (roughly) the same amount.

The capitalist believes that the size of the pie can be increased and
everybody can have a bigger slice. Virtually all the "poor" in America have
a home, a car, a cell-phone, a TV, a microwave, electric lights, running
water, and a malt. The ratio of their slice to that of the well-off remains
the same, but in absolute terms their slice is WAY bigger than in places
where wealth is redistributed.

In sum, the liberal holds that wealth is generally constant and fairness
demands equality of it's distribution. The capitalist believes that wealth
can be created and, by so doing, lifts all boats.