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Re: The Sad truth
What FIRST is now beginning to see (although I believe it's been going on all the time) is the effects of competitive darwinism. Teams are increasingly finding that they need to be adabpable not only on the field of play, but in the world of business, finance, worker retention, and sales.
The world FIRST is in is changing. FIRST needs to look at team retention and decide if it wants to be darwinian (capitalistic) or communal (socialistic) in it's plan for retaining teams.
If it chooses to remain capitalistic, then to retain teams FIRST needs to show to newer (and struggling) teams how the self-sufficiant teams are doing it.
If it chooses to be socialistic, then it must create a central fund that can support teams in need.
Sooner or later the choice will need to be made ... or we will continue to see teams fail.
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"We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. "- Tennyson, Ulysses

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