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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 666300"><p>Inevitable? Not exactly. When I see (1) NFL owners investing in gambling sites and (2) star players retiring before their time because they have more money than God, I would not rule out that one day the league will have jumped the shark, though that's not within any visible horizon. The U.S. male audience for the NFL is fully saturated and domestic population growth is slow, leaving expansion of the female audience and overseas expansion. Increases in female viewership is incremental; overseas is a real predicament because the amount of investment now required for an unproven business model in foreign markets is prohibitive.</p><p></p><p>Desirable? Not really. It's just one small element in the late stage capitalism economic landscape where the best minds and/or the most money are increasingly concentrated in entertaining you and selling you stuff in the process. While many billions of people find these "inventions" useful and in fact entertaining, the rationale behind them is to build on developing an exhaustive <strong>profile of you</strong> to target advertising, whether it's search, social media, the smart phone, the facilitating cloud, or the coming "internet of things". But while the "stuff" they sell you is more, cheaper and faster, the "better" is more than a decade in the rear view mirror, except of course for advertising tools that provide some marginal convenience. The cycle of basic science and invention in the post WWII era that actually improved quality of life has nearly run it's course, except of course for technology designed to sell you stuff that isn't noticeably better than the stuff you already have. This is, in essence, the "peak stuff" theory; invention has become an un-virtuous cycle. There are of course billions of people who don't have enough stuff, but there's more money in exploiting them than selling to them.</p><p></p><p>We still have games to watch. That's something. From a global macro financial standpoint, what NFL players get paid is a trivial thing to be concerned about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 666300"] Inevitable? Not exactly. When I see (1) NFL owners investing in gambling sites and (2) star players retiring before their time because they have more money than God, I would not rule out that one day the league will have jumped the shark, though that's not within any visible horizon. The U.S. male audience for the NFL is fully saturated and domestic population growth is slow, leaving expansion of the female audience and overseas expansion. Increases in female viewership is incremental; overseas is a real predicament because the amount of investment now required for an unproven business model in foreign markets is prohibitive. Desirable? Not really. It's just one small element in the late stage capitalism economic landscape where the best minds and/or the most money are increasingly concentrated in entertaining you and selling you stuff in the process. While many billions of people find these "inventions" useful and in fact entertaining, the rationale behind them is to build on developing an exhaustive [B]profile of you[/B] to target advertising, whether it's search, social media, the smart phone, the facilitating cloud, or the coming "internet of things". But while the "stuff" they sell you is more, cheaper and faster, the "better" is more than a decade in the rear view mirror, except of course for advertising tools that provide some marginal convenience. The cycle of basic science and invention in the post WWII era that actually improved quality of life has nearly run it's course, except of course for technology designed to sell you stuff that isn't noticeably better than the stuff you already have. This is, in essence, the "peak stuff" theory; invention has become an un-virtuous cycle. There are of course billions of people who don't have enough stuff, but there's more money in exploiting them than selling to them. We still have games to watch. That's something. From a global macro financial standpoint, what NFL players get paid is a trivial thing to be concerned about. [/QUOTE]
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