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De on your comments about how easy it is for people to take both sides.

So I'm going to make arguments that capitalism is good, and it's also really easy to debunk

those arguments.

It's just reminding me that I can't remember what I've said on the show yet.

I would love to make this into an episode, but I don't know how.

I'll just say my theory, which came from a documentary I watched about European football

and the European clubs, I feel like we touched on this in a bonus show a while back, but they

talked about how these clubs just started in these little towns, and they were just

loved by the community, and they just sort of went along, this is like 120 years ago

whatever, and so they just sort of went along and were just like these little communal things,

and then capitalism got involved, and they got better.

It was actually good for the town.

It was good for the people.

The club could become even more central to community life, and people could make a living

from being part of the club that they loved so much, and those are good things.

Then more time went by, and I guess details you could get into in the middle, but fast

forward all the way to today, and capitalism is completely eating the game and those communities

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