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I should note that the number of winners is not really relevant. I said i prefer a society where some can win rather than everyone being forced into mediocrity. I tried out for two olympic teams knowing that in my sport and in my country I had about a one in four chance of making it (I didn't) and then about a one in 20 chance of winning a medal if I made the team. Bad odds but what I learned training for that (and all the other tournaments I won along the way including two america's cups) was very worthwhile. The left often seems to engage in a cynical view that people shouldn't try to win because the game is rigged against them and they are better off not expending the effort and letting the dem party and a dem run government taking care of them while many of us on the right argue that working hard and trying to win has massive benefits for both the individual and society even if most of those who try don't win
a nation where everyone tries to be an olympic track or swimming or boxing or table tennis or badminton athlete is going to be far more healthy than one where everyone sits on their collective asses figuring its not worth the sweat and muscle aches given the odds against making the team.
likewise, we have a far more prosperous nation where everyone tries to be self sufficient and economically independent if not "rich" than one where everyone sits around waiting for the welfare check
a nation where everyone tries to be an olympic track or swimming or boxing or table tennis or badminton athlete is going to be far more healthy than one where everyone sits on their collective asses figuring its not worth the sweat and muscle aches given the odds against making the team.
likewise, we have a far more prosperous nation where everyone tries to be self sufficient and economically independent if not "rich" than one where everyone sits around waiting for the welfare check