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Ideas, please, for how one can take some big, well-known commercial concern that provides a widely enjoyed product or service, and that works reasonably well as it is - and then propose to transform it in some sort of undisguisedly greed-driven way, and in so doing utterly ruin in it in a way that the 'outsider' financial strategists and accountants behind it seem completely oblivious to, so much so it seems doomed to fail.
@shallow-blue saidOf course. That is what's behind the thread OP. However, I wonder if we can come with ideas for other familiar endeavours in the public domain that could be [potentially] ruined by toxic levels of capitalistic avarice and tunnel vision.
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Superleague?
@chris-guffogg saidA league you can't get relegated from isn't a league. It becomes a series of exhibition matches if it is the same clubs over and over. I don't think players will want that. Especially if the authorities ban them from playing internationals and ban the clubs from all other real competitions. They become like the Harlem Globetrotters. Show teams for players who no longer want to compete. I think player power will sink it as a result. I don't think traditional fans would watch it either. It looks like a nonstarter to me.
Great current example - Gary Neville quote online!👍
@fmf saidCompletely privatize public libraries and then increase borrowing fees sharply to help teach disadvantaged families a real world lesson about the true value of reading books rather lecturing them about it whilst lending them books for free.
Ideas, please, for how one can take some big, well-known commercial concern that provides a widely enjoyed product or service, and that works reasonably well as it is - and then propose to transform it in some sort of undisguisedly greed-driven way, and in so doing utterly ruin in it in a way that the 'outsider' financial strategists and accountants behind it seem completely oblivious to, so much so it seems doomed to fail.
@the-gravedigger saidThey claim no charge for 911 calls but I am betting they have that calculated in everyone's monthly Phone or cell bill.
Phone companies should start charging premium rates for 999 (911) calls.
People are desperate so will pay anything.
-VR
