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> George Will said
Please, I just ate lunch.
> I don't think anyone here would argue against what you're saying in
> broad terms, but sports isn't the best illustration. In sports, without
> the athlete there is no product. People were watching it before it was
> marketed and before anyone built stadiums to play in.
But this is circular, isn't it? With no admission fees, or marketing, or stadia, etc, etc, there is no surplus value to extract, no? I mean, you are comparing a pre-capitalist relation with a capitalist one, aren't you?
Sure, there is no game w/o the athlete, but there is no "professional sports" w/o a whole bunch of other stuff too.