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I realize that I could have a lot of fun with someone doing this.
You just get really invested in a little league team of baseball players. You can picture it like a date (but not an Anti-Dates but it could be.)
With my personal limited enjoyment of baseball, I really do believe that my subjective enjoyment of this moment will be exactly the same as if it were a major league baseball event.
I could actually see myself getting more invested in the plight and antics of these little kids. We’d root for the underdogs, watching from the bleachers amidst strangers. We’d develop their backstories. We’d cheer them on, and feel direct emotional impact with the players. They’d see us and smile. You can think of small ways to make them feel special.
This is possible within MLB and the food, and paid experience might be “on paper” more refined, and higher scale. But I 100% feel there is a loss here, that could under the right circumstances make for a better experience between two like minded people.
I think this expands to other topics.
The skill level, and personal challenges are in some facets more interesting than “life at the top” and the jockeying there. Sure there is achievement, and sacrifice and literal human maximization occurring - but there’s also something to be said about personal maximization, tracking the level of enjoyment.
The narrative of second place, can be more narratively interesting than that of a the gold. That which gives a gold, is one one metric (granted, the superficial goal of the game) of which there are thousands of. Even as a simple example, a record can be broken in game — and still result in a loss.
It’s like being given 100K a year, vs 100000K.
You can have balance within the relativity.
Similarly, the extent of joy experiencing something is always human sized. It’s not like a bigger waterfall always produces a bigger sensation.
You grow jaded chasing bigger and bigger waterfalls. Meanwhile, seeing a small surprise one, and placing your hand into it after a walk - you share and creates a memory. It is more.
What happens is there’s a chase. That whole hedonic treadmill, which you can never win.
To some extent the chase for larger and larger waterfalls, seems socially oriented. This small waterfall is accessible to all and has my personal memory attached, that is more difficult to share (“You weren’t there, when we had a day alone together”). But this, this larger one - it has universal appeal and sells well. People will understand that one.
Much better to be creative and passionate about these sincere Little league kids, doing their best and attempting to understand this strange context they are put in.
This could be the case.