When Lebron James left Cleveland last night, I thought he made a mistake. Most of the time, you don't know what you've got until you lose it, and James just lost the unconditional love of one of the best sports cities in the country. I suspect he has no idea what he just gave up... maybe he should have listened to The Beatles "All You Need Is Love," before he made his decision!
But one of the things he said last night was, "At the end of the day, this is a business," and that really left an impression on me. I still am not exactly sure what to make of it; I know I don't want it to be true, but this is capitalism, a free market, and the Almighty dollar decides more things than we would probably like to admit.
But what if I said, "At the end of the day, Bitmob is just a business?" Would you agree? A couple weeks ago, Shoe wrote a blog talking about how fed up he was with game sites using rumor and gossip in the headlines to generate hits. "Is Shigeru Miyamoto leaving Nintendo?" for instance. If Bitmob is just a business, and writing headlines like that gets people to read your article, is it wrong? To me, it feels wrong, but at the end of the day...
Or what about in actual video games? So many blogs recently have been talking about games making people do things they didn't want to do, like smacking a woman, and there was another one about putting a woman on train tracks or something. Stuff like that sells video games (for some reason). It feels wrong, but at the end of the day...
It seems to me that Lebron James was saying if we're pragmatic, if we look at the world realistically, then at the end of the day, this is a business. This is not about love, creativity, values, or anything else, it's about money. That doesn't really sit well with me, but that doesn't mean he's wrong.
