In alt.suicide.holiday roky <rokybird@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 16, 6:52 am, Alexander Kalinowski
> <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Alex:
>> Posted this to the wrong newsgroup, initially.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexander Kalinowski <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > Just to demonstrate you how globalization works and why I think your
views
>> > are totally misguided.
>>
>> > 15 years back, Germany was a football superpower. I just had won the
World
>> > Cup (1990 in Italy) and with the additional players from Eastern
Germany,
>> > after the reunification, the future looked rosy.
>>
>> > 15 years later, today, Germany has fallen from grace. It has
recovered a bit
>> > during the last World Cup tournament, here in Germany, but it's clubs
still
>> > cannot compete with clubs from Italy, Spain, or England anymore.
>>
>> > What happened? The end of the 90s and the beginning of this millenium
saw an
>> > explosion in player salaries. Germans thought it was crazy that a
football
>> > player should earn like 5 to 10 million euros per year. That clubs
should pay
>> > to other clubs a 120 million euros for the transfer of a top notch
player.
>> > After all it's just a *game*. Likewise, Germans didn't want to have
to pay
>> > for seeing football games, but in England, for example, the pay TV
brings the
>> > English clubs enormous amounts of money.
>>
>> > So? The top players didn't want to come to Germany anymore. They want
to the
>> > other leagues, where they could earn more money. After a few years of
this,
>> > the quality (and thus the reputation) of the German league has
suffered so
>> > much now, that even now that Bayern Munich, Germany's top club, is
ready to pay
>> > as much as the English or Spanish clubs (Bayern Munich had been
saving money
>> > for years), the international top players don't want to come to
Germany to
>> > play here.
>>
>> > Because we have refused to play along, we have lost ground in
competition.
>>
>> > That is the basic point of it. You can try to resist the competitive
>> > mechanisms all by yourself, but you will change nothing and you will
just end
>> > up losing ground and *therefore* *influence* to change the nature of
the game
>> > itself. One just loses im****tance.
>>
>> > *Therefore* my proposed strategy is to stay on top of the game and to
try to
>> > start a concerted effort by multiple participants to change the
entire system.
>>
>> > A single nation's resistance against the forces of competition is
pointless.
>> > One needs to organize against it.
>>
>> > Also note that this doesn't mean that the gms of English, Spanish and
Italian
>> > clubs are *necessarily* ruthless, power-mongering, money-grubbing
people.
>> > They are not the slave drivers, they are driven themselves, driven by
how the
>> > game of globalized competition works.
>>
>> > But I would agree that quite a few of them don't mind being driven
that way,
>> > as long as it works in their favor. That needs to change.
>>
>> > Alex
>>
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>
> You rang. ?
Alex:
Any thoughts on that?
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