It ' s better to play well than to play white . Karjakin <| sep |> The way I like to think of it , it shows what each culture ' s real values are . America , the land of the free market , enforces a form of communism within their sports leagues , which ensures loyalty to a single monopolistic entity and protects the oligarchy of thirtyplus teams , giving the owners of those teams tremendous power and riches . If you look deeply enough , America has similar systems for all kinds of industries where we have laws and regulations that effectively protect small oligarchies by giving them welfare . Europe , by contrast , actually allows the free market to work for everyone . <| sep |> I think it is a story that it incredibly easy to believe , regardless of if it is true . If someone told me children under 10 no longer knew what books were , I might believe it because of how technology has integrated itself into all aspects of our lives . However , I don ' t think that it being believable makes it true . From what I have seen , reading has been persisting and thriving in some cases . It just isn ' t a flashy hobby that makes it into the news . When is the last time someone read The Catcher and the Rye and killed a celebrity ? All the media driven crime motivation is assigned to video games and stuff we can get mad about . We don ' t hear about it , but readers keep reading . Non readers keep discovering reading and becoming readers . Like myself , never read for pleasure before 6 months ago . Since then I ' ve read 22 full length novels and I ' m a full time student . I think until our brains evolve to stop making reading so amazing , people are gonna keep reading .