I didn’t know about that. I’m one of today’s 10000 🙂

The original idea for the premise, quite certain. The original version is a bit of a stretch.

[…] and velocity is often used to compare developers against each other.

Wow, that’s messed up. Luckily I’ve never had such a team/such leadership.

It’s not flawed. Nobody should get rewarded or encouraged by story points. It’s solely a planning metric and not a metric of productivity.