One response to “Bill Maher: What Makes NFL Football So Great: Socialism.”
This was a comment that someone left to Mr. Maher, I thought it was mint.
Actually, football is capitalism at its finest. Let me explain. The NFL is a large “for profit” company.
The various NFL “clubs” are like subsidiaries of the company. In order to compete and profit as a company, the NFL knows it needs to encourage competition among the subsidiaries (the clubs). To encourage competition and, hence, grow the parent company and subsidiaries, the NFL has decided to institute a pay system that helps all of it’s various subsidiaries compete in the marketplace. They have been successful by knocking off its competitor – Baseball- as America’s past-time. Socialism, on the other hand, would have been show in this example if the NFL as a competing “for profit” company, were required to share it’s “evil profits” EXTERNALLY with the NBA or baseball owners (or the government). If you know business structure, the NFL does the same that most large, for profit American-driven capitalist businesses do – – ensure that they knock off the competition by growing their brand through the funding of the various subsidiaries that it owns.
One response to “Bill Maher: What Makes NFL Football So Great: Socialism.”
This was a comment that someone left to Mr. Maher, I thought it was mint.
Actually, football is capitalism at its finest. Let me explain. The NFL is a large “for profit” company.
The various NFL “clubs” are like subsidiaries of the company. In order to compete and profit as a company, the NFL knows it needs to encourage competition among the subsidiaries (the clubs). To encourage competition and, hence, grow the parent company and subsidiaries, the NFL has decided to institute a pay system that helps all of it’s various subsidiaries compete in the marketplace. They have been successful by knocking off its competitor – Baseball- as America’s past-time. Socialism, on the other hand, would have been show in this example if the NFL as a competing “for profit” company, were required to share it’s “evil profits” EXTERNALLY with the NBA or baseball owners (or the government). If you know business structure, the NFL does the same that most large, for profit American-driven capitalist businesses do – – ensure that they knock off the competition by growing their brand through the funding of the various subsidiaries that it owns.