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> Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours.

That's exactly when I would want to work on a side project after my full time job. Seems really harmful if Spain wants to have the possibility of individuals with full time jobs developing ideas that can turn into startups that could become unicorns.

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The purpose of a system is what it does.

Another one that the Europeans like to this effect is unrealized capital gains tax, to make sure you never make it to the unicorn stage.

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> they're watching the match

Isn't that part of the problem? Foot egg is so ingrained into the countrymen that nothing else matters.

There wouldn't be so much of a forced monopoly if more people would stop watching games and stand up to laliga.

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Foot egg? I thought we were talking about soccer.
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Hand egg is the other.
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did soccer balls change shape to warrant being compared to eggs?
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Oh right
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And that's how greed ends up destroying itself.

They can easily get away with soccer because everyone is glued to the match. Tennis? Eh. Golf? No way.

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Complaining on the internet every time laliga shuts down github etc isn't going to change anything, we can't solve your problems, the change has to come from within.
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> So in short, the ruling is incredibly stupid because they're allowed to do so, save for the vocal minority, the vast majority of the population doesn't care: they're watching the match.

Is it actually worth fighting for principles to prevent slippery slopes? It seems most political battles in the US, especially the culture wars, are just about people's personal beliefs. It’s not that these issues affect them directly. It's they just want to make sure the other side doesn’t change their vision of the future.

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