GDeathe wrote:Got to laugh at the morons in this thread who are bitching and moaning about capitalism and the rich but in every other fucking thread lament about the A-league not having P&R and having a salary cap...
Ponder this...for a leftard to visit the grave of Karl Marx they have to pay a 4 pound entrance fee to a private cemetery
Edited by GDeathe: 20/1/2016 09:23:42 PM
Except that one is a recommendation for how a sporting competition should be run, and the other is a recommendation for how an economic system catering to the whole of society should be run. Not really analogous examples methinks.
In reference to the Karl Marx thing, one thing I have always thought interesting is comparing American sports with European ones:
USA - home of free market economics.
Sports are franchise based "socialist" models with no P/R, salary caps, collective bargaining, collective profit sharing between owners, drafts to equalise teams etc.
Europe - home of "social democracy".
Football at least is completely free market, P/R, no collective bargaining, salary caps, draft etc.
Interestingly, it has been suggested that the above has evolved due to the different mindsets, eg-
With the US's capitalist mentality, the NFL and clubs have quite deliberately acted as a cartel to exploit monopolistic market powers. They are acting from a capitalist mindset to "game the system" and maximise their power, and profit.
Whereas the custodians of football in Europe structured their sport on a "noble amateur" ideal, and this has been exploited by clubs acting in a capitalist mindset.
Some food for thought!