Class warfare summed up in a simple joke (with an accompanying cartoon)

You can call the NFL model whatever you want. It certainly isn't socialism, which was your claim.

Putting aside that the NFL isn't the state.

The NFL shares revenue between teams, but that is because of profit motive. It does that to make a better product, which it then sells into a free market. They aren't redistributing wealth out of some sense of fairness. They are trying to create a product (and do it successfully) that meetis discretionary demand within a larger economy.

In order for people to indulge that discretionary demand, they need discretionary income. To get that discretionary income, they need to produce something that the market values enough to more than meet their basic needs.

That is capitalism in a nutshell.

Call their business model whatever you want, collectivism, gefiltafishism or martianism. That is your non-explanatory term. It's still an entity selling a product into a free market for discretionary entertainment income.

 

If that is directed toward me, I never said unions are anti-free market. There's nothing wrong with people trying to negotiate higher wages. It's a smart thing to do, if you can.

If you want to do it through collective bargaining -- WITHOUT government interference skewing the labor market -- you need leverage. Grocery checkout workers don't have much, if any, leverage. Without government favors, let them try to collectively bargain. They are not going to be able to command anything more by doing so, because they are easily replaceable.

Collective bargaining is ONLY successful for a workforce that is highly skilled and therefore not easily replaceable. It's why it works for pro athletes. Individually, they were walking in and trying to negotiate. But it limited their earnings. Collectively, when they threaten to walk, they use their obvious leverage. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning can't be replaced, let alone replaced by thousands of people who can walk in tomorrow and do their job.

 

The NFL is not the state.

The NFL sells its product into a free marketplace. Let the REAL state -- the United States -- try to use the NFL model for it's economic model. How do we shift around income to better maximize the country's gross domestic product? And how does the country earn that income in the first place? The United States doesn't have a larger economy clamoring for the United States to sell itself into.

 

Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit.

How are neither MLB or the NFL not capitalistic?