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  • Stupid take. Bringing in tech - starting with Apple in the 80s - has transformed us from an agrarian society to an information one. We had to skip the manufacturing stage because of, y’know, the genocide.

    The idea that it hasn’t benefited the people in the country is monumentally dumb to anyone who lived through the 80s and 90s. The money that stayed in the country is salary and therefore income tax. Is it unfair for employees to indirectly fund the country? Kind of. Is it better than literally burning muck to stay alive? Yes




  • Americans seem to very directly associate the organisation FIFA with the sport of soccer and the World Cup itself.

    I think it comes from the literal ownership of sports leagues and sports teams by corporations like MLB, NFL, NHL.

    FIFA doesn’t own soccer, it doesn’t own any of the teams, and it barely owns the World Cup. It is tolerated as a necessary evil that someone has to do the organising, but historically for example, major nations have shrugged and ignored FIFA as inconsequential.

    Sport in general is just vastly different on an emotional and political level in other countries. The immediate dismissal of “sports isn’t news” and “sports shouldn’t be political” very obviously shows who has grown up in an environment where sport is primarily a backdrop over which corporate sponsorships and endorsements are laid.

    The politics associated with sports isn’t always good or nuanced but it is there.