Monday, February 25, 2008

What games do socialists play?

Not T20 cricket for sure..
Okay, a quick wiki check on what is socialism
"Socialism refers to a broad array of ideologies and political movements with the goal of a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community.[1] This control may be either direct—exercised through popular collectives such as workers' councils—or indirect—exercised on behalf of the people by the state."
Allright - so what this is, is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Now Peter may not necessarily be better off himself, but if he is even "relatively" better off, then Peter is screwed. Never mind the fact that Peter spent all those nights slaving in front of a kerosene lamp, trying to make a better life for himself, and his ageing factory-laborer parents, while Paul was selling kidneys to unscrupulous oil barons and texan worms.
A lot of commentators have first villified the shortened version of the game, an indirect productivity boost, where in a country of 1.5 billion we have people taking days off work just to catch that India-Bangladesh series. Communists, aka work-shrugging parasites, have shown the greatest opposition to the T20 game, asking for it to be banned(!!!!!!), for it viciously violates the communist norms of earning more than their fellow brother on the basis of talent, merit or any other rational word for aptitude.
Mr. Dasgupta, shut up - your annoying utterances and lack of understanding of the world around you is appalling. Why are the you and your ilk crying about the fact that players get paid (auctioned is offensive?) in the millions for (1) their worth on the field (2) their worth off of it. I'd rather you be more offended by the auctions of destitute Bangladeshi/Nepali women from across the border, than those of the country's brightest talents in pursuit of rewards for a liked game.
I don't care if nostalgic oldies without an ounce of talent to rub shoulders with even the likes of noobs Ishant Sharma/Rohit Sharma's squeal from beneath their socialist burqas that they didn't get paid well during their times. Your best efforts can be labelled as 1971 England, 1971 West Indies, and Australia 1985? All this in over 100 years of cricket? That is atrociously bad - no wonder you guys didn't get paid - you never did your job right. It was another fact that the Indian Board didn't have the money to pay you, which they would have, had India not been the socialist communist USSR loving country it was for a good part of 5 decades.
In a day and age where useless IT louts get paid in the lakhs, its only fair that the people who've gambled their careers into a game, where breaking into the national team is 1 in a million , we need to pay the top entertainers the best money. Well deserved lads, now go earn your keep.

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