Ideas, please, for how one can take some big, well-known commercial concern that provides a widely enjoyed product or service, and that works reasonably well as it is - and then propose to transform it in some sort of undisguisedly greed-driven way, and in so doing utterly ruin in it in a way that the 'outsider' financial strategists and accountants behind it seem completely oblivious to, so much so it seems doomed to fail.
Of course. That is what's behind the thread OP. However, I wonder if we can come with ideas for other familiar endeavours in the public domain that could be [potentially] ruined by toxic levels of capitalistic avarice and tunnel vision.
@chris-guffoggsaid Great current example - Gary Neville quote online!👍
A league you can't get relegated from isn't a league. It becomes a series of exhibition matches if it is the same clubs over and over. I don't think players will want that. Especially if the authorities ban them from playing internationals and ban the clubs from all other real competitions. They become like the Harlem Globetrotters. Show teams for players who no longer want to compete. I think player power will sink it as a result. I don't think traditional fans would watch it either. It looks like a nonstarter to me.
@fmfsaid Ideas, please, for how one can take some big, well-known commercial concern that provides a widely enjoyed product or service, and that works reasonably well as it is - and then propose to transform it in some sort of undisguisedly greed-driven way, and in so doing utterly ruin in it in a way that the 'outsider' financial strategists and accountants behind it seem completely oblivious to, so much so it seems doomed to fail.
Completely privatize public libraries and then increase borrowing fees sharply to help teach disadvantaged families a real world lesson about the true value of reading books rather lecturing them about it whilst lending them books for free.
@fmfsaid Of course. That is what's behind the thread OP. However, I wonder if we can come with ideas for other familiar endeavours in the public domain that could be [potentially] ruined by toxic levels of capitalistic avarice and tunnel vision.
They should tax renewable energy heavily so that fossil fuels continue to be used. They could use that additional tax revenue to clean up the environment and fight climate change.
@fmfsaid They should tax renewable energy heavily so that fossil fuels continue to be used. They could use that additional tax revenue to clean up the environment and fight climate change.
If you're lucky you may get to see that in your life time.
@relentless-redsaid A league you can't get relegated from isn't a league. It becomes a series of exhibition matches if it is the same clubs over and over. I don't think players will want that. Especially if the authorities ban them from playing internationals and ban the clubs from all other real competitions. They become like the Harlem Globetrotters. Show teams for players who no longer ...[text shortened]... as a result. I don't think traditional fans would watch it either. It looks like a nonstarter to me.
I’m withholding judgment for the time being.
However what I find interesting is the hypocrisy of SKY Sports and their presenters who are complaining about the elitist commercially driven attitudes of clubs when SKY themselves are inextricably in cohorts with the elitist Premier League to extort billions in television rights from the precious “fans” they are falling over themselves to protect.
Gary Neville, one of the commentary poster-boys for SKY Sports having a rant about football clubs making too much money just made me want to punch him in the face. The man is a multimillionaire because of football.
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