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What should we learn from the European Super League debacle?
It’s been an interesting few days with this whole European Super League palaver.
The furore and fallout over it has been crazy to watch as it unfolded — but it confirms one thing that is now clear to see — money (and football) really are the religions of today.
For the past 72 hours — this was all anyone was talking about — to the extent where people were complaining of the sheer injustice, greed, unfairness, avarice and betrayal of a select few.
When it affects something you REALLY love, eyes everywhere were opened to the greed and elitism rife in society.
There’s actually nothing new or shocking here.
All that’s happened, is that you’ve had a taste of reality. A bit of the red pill.
Welcome to the real world. It’s not nice, is it?
The extreme brand of Friedman economics and toxic capitalism that we practice in the West, where ‘nothing matters except the profit’ has been doing this to society for the past 100 years.
The only difference is that now it affected something YOU love.
Where is the outrage when the rainforests are destroyed beyond repair? Where is the outrage at our money being devalued every year to the point its on the verge…