In alt.suicide.holiday Alexander Kalinowski
<alex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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?
Alex:
No thought is as good as "no thought", so I agree. :-)
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