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BREAKING: Queen Camilla is taking a break from public duties for some “downtime”, which means that NONE of the four most senior royals – King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William and Kate Middleton – are working right now.
All is not well with the Royal Family. 💁♂️ pic.twitter.com/2sgSrM0Otz
— Cillian (@CilComLFC) March 2, 2024
In the NBA All-Star game, no one is playing defense any more, and so the score was a ridiculous 211-186, something which would never happen in a regular season game. (Note that some of the league’s finer defenders were on the floor, though Joel Embiid, the reigning MVP and an intimidating defender, was sidelined due to injury.) Some part of the ethic of (defensive) service has disappeared, though the players are still happy to shoot and score. And they certainly will play defense hard when the playoffs roll around.
I’ve never seen papers on the labor supply of royal families (Cowen’s Second Law?), but I do wonder what it varies with. It is hard to use one’s royal position to influence politics, at least in the UK. And certainly you are not paid more if you work harder. The King or Queen nominally owns a lot of land and art, but in practice one cannot pull income streams from those assets. You can have a Michelangelo drawing hung in your bedroom, but that if anything is a reason not to go out in public.
You can use a royal family position to meet with lots of important people, but toward what end? Raising money for your next start-up? Alternatively, you can work harder to raise your stature and influence with the other royal family members (now we’re getting somewhere). But what if that equilibrium falls apart, if only because of one or two initial defections, or in the case of the King an illness? What external force would keep the whole struggle for royal family influence going? Is this a case of multiple competitive equilibria, and now we (they?) are stuck in the low effort corner? Can Lina Khan work on this?
What if they are all just pissed off with the lot of us? In that case, what is our next move in this von Stackelberg game? Should America reapply to the Empire with some trembling hand probability? Would it suffice to give them Newfoundland back? Take Northern Ireland off their hands? Do they want us to send more or fewer tourists to London? Should one of them marry Taylor Swift, or at least date her, to remain in the public eye?
If the NBA All-Star game is to improve, perhaps viewer censure (or mockery) for the non-cooperators is the primary way forward?
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