A soccer team doesn't make its money on the field, but from the stands. If your team's fan base is very small, it's a good idea to sell players to teams with a huge fan base, preferably a global one. Not everyone seems to have grasped this. (Image text)
Every now and then, in a diverse market and a diverse economy, some people decide to start promoting the interests of a particular group. They believe that a great opportunity for their group’s brand will arise as long as the market’s “wrong desires” are curbed. In reality, this usually results in the entire sector of the economy in question being plunged into a serious crisis.
A good example of this is top-tier Italian soccer. There, they don’t follow market forces. They do not sell the best players from their teams, even if offered an inflated price. The most talented young players are tied to their own teams in a way that everyone loses: the teams, the players themselves, the Italian league, and the better leagues that thus fail to acquire young top talents for further development. In fact, Italy’s top soccer league has been turning into a farm league for some time now, buying players who wouldn’t even make the starting lineup on mediocre teams in top leagues. Due to the drop in quality, they do well in Italy.
In markets driven by great desires, there are only two basic attitudes toward the economy (buying and selling). First, a nationalist, closed-market, politician-driven communal experience: the best products in our trade belong to us.
The other option is to go with the market and succeed there. Those who go with the market and succeed there always perform better than those who choose to close the market. Incidentally, historically, England has relied on liberalism more than others, and it appears to continue doing so.
