Fair points but I'd like to say that players earn millions because they bring in millions, that's capitalism.As a football fan myself, I have never considered Messi an idol. Real football fans don't idolize football stars to the heavens. Because these guys come and go. They have a playing career that spans around 20 years at best, most of the time, its less than that. After that, we would look for the next superstar to carry our beloved football team to glory. Messi is truly one of the best footballers of his generation, but his footballer career is already coming to a close. I will never pay HKD5000 to watch a once-great footballer play a non-competitive game of football. That is already a scam on its own. Those who did that were either Messi-worshippers, hardcore Barca-fans, or just casual football fans who didn't know what they are paying for.
Messi is not universally beloved among true football fans, because he plays for FC Barcelona for most of his career, and FC Barcelona have many rivals and haters. Go ask the Real Madrid fans and other rival La Liga fans if they could ever worship him. Never, they would rather spit on his name than worship him.
Football today is so heavily politicized, that it has become a new propaganda arm for the West. We have witnessed: BLM, LGBTQ, Israeli flag waving (prior to the 2023 Gaza War), banning of Palestinian flags, Mesut Ozil's support for ETIM's "Uighur Genocide" propaganda, banning of Russia from UEFA but not for Ukraine, forced expulsion of Russian billionaires from football businesses in Europe, and now with Messi sulking in HK. I love football, but it is also time to call it out.
Another disgusting thing that is happening is all that money being thrown around in this sport. Sometimes, the money that is spent to buy a superstar today could buy us an entire stadium. There are football players earning up to more than 1M Euros per week. Sponsors and media are throwing hundreds of millions around like candy. And the average football fans are getting milked for money like never before. Such as that HKD5000 Messi-no-show game in HK. This is madness, spending all that money on a sport where a bunch of guys are kicking a ball around.
I like his videos but he's too trusting of modern-day sources. Most of his content comes from history authors or other academics who study from afar without any practical knowledge of the world outside the lecture hall."leading to an inevitable societal collapse"
He added that, if Russia “managed to exhaust the European economy, while maintaining Chinese backing, American monetary and financial controls of the world would collapse, and with them the possibility for the United States to fund their huge trade deficit for nothing.

Next time you post a video, please provide your own summary and the reason(s) you feel the rest of SDF should watch it as well"leading to an inevitable societal collapse"
The comment section along with other similar videos is mostly filled with the standard China bashers who assuming they know better but in reality, they have ate one too much video from serpentaza to realize that if China was supposed to collapse, then they really need all the prerequisites for such a development in place which in all honesty mostly amounts to wishful thinking of their part. This fear mongering recently seems to be mostly projection of their part and very little in terms of real substance and lots of really high levels of delusion. Still watching videos like this is an exercise is suffering as most of them really don’t have much in terms of rational or objective thought out into them and this one shouldn’t watch any of them and expect any good result from themI like his videos but he's too trusting of modern-day sources. Most of his content comes from history authors or other academics who study from afar without any practical knowledge of the world outside the lecture hall.
I'm not sure what you meant by that, but the thing is the report was dated 2018. And was the anomalous sampling method applied equally to all countries?Then the next obvious logical step is to normalise the results to account for this known undersampling and oversampling, no?
@gpt Did you take the time to watch the video in its entirety? If so, how is the video along with the poinst presented differs from the myriad of videos and opinion makers regarding China from the likes of Serpentza, Falun Gong, Peter Zeihan etc. What was the compelling points the YouTuber expressed that you found the temerity to actually post the video. It would be really nice and appreciated if anyone of us can include our points and opinions on any links, so that people that posts here can make up their own mind to find it amongst ourselves if such an effort to watch anti-China video is productive and educational."leading to an inevitable societal collapse"
But, I could be mistaken, and maybe I jumped the gun too soon and got WAY TOO SENSITIVE, silly wumao Chinese in me, got emotional because I am afraid that those Xi bucks will stop coming into my direct deposit account. So @gpt Please, by all means help me understand your perspective and the perspective/content of the video perhaps I will be able to learn something new that I have yet to discover.