Euro: do soccer leagues need a salary cap

[Luigi Habs]

This thread drifted in a quite unexpected way

 

[bleedblue1223]

The variety of topics discussed in just 5 pages is an incredible accomplishment.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

This might be my favourite thread in the history of this board.

 

[Deficient Mode]

http://www.slate.com/articles/busin...urce_rich_countries_usually_end_up_poor_.html
https://www.ft.com/content/abda323c-8c21-11de-b14f-00144feabdc0
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120159288
https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...eveloping-countries-and-how-to-fix-it/256508/
http://www.economist.com/node/5323394
http://www.wupr.org/2013/11/24/resource-rich-but-still-poor/
http://www.businessinsider.com/poorest-countries-in-the-world-2010-8

You're right it is a cause-and-effect innuendo, but totally different how the cause ends up as an effect. In political science, you learn that countries who have natural resources tend to not rely on citizens help to grow the economy. In this case, they tend to fall into dictatorships since the dictatorship coalition doesn't need the wealth for economy growth. Instead they drill, package the oil, and sell it to other nations for profit for the government, while there is no need for supply and demand free market citizen lead system. Thus these countries remain poor, agricultural, and tribal. A lot of countries in the Middle East, are still very tribal in culture like Pakistan for instance.

Yikes.

This might be my favourite thread in the history of this board.

Happened about 30 posts ago for me. Just continues to cement its place.

 

[Ceremony]

The most oil heavy regions on the planet are also some of the poorest due to Communism and Totalitarian regimes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...dictatorships-survive/?utm_term=.0a5324fec2f7

But once you leave your oil rich fields of Independent People's Republic of Scotland and Rangers FC, and come beyond the borders into the world known as common sense. It will awaken you to understand that no government programme, bail out, union, or just next door neighbor is going to help you what you want in your life. You got to work for your own self good since 99.9% of the world doesn't care about you.

In the end though, you can laugh at me once you struck oil just to realise you hit your own septic tank.

At least Scotland have a better football team than Norway