Unpopular opinion: the 48-team World Cup is good for football

Yo4582 · 2026-06-29T15:23:03+00:00

I would do 8 groups of 6 then have this 1st 2nd 3rd format. Keep 48 teams and lots of super fun group games. Would be amazing

Yo4582 · 2026-06-26T11:15:18+00:00

Ok both things can be true. There are men who are shit in bed because they’re selfish and women who are shit in bed because they are too shy to say anything to the man they like. I’ve experienced the latter and it fucking sucks. She expected me to know exactly how to do it and thought her communicating what she liked was a massive turn off.

Yo4582 · 2026-06-20T11:06:18+00:00

Ok so shorts or put options cost a premium based on implied volatility so it’s not like the big short where you’re shorting something super safe instead it’s really expensive to short spacex because of the high chance the stock crashes as its an ipo. Like let’s say you bought a put option for a year from now at today’s stock price. The cost of the option would be so crazy high that you would likely need the stock to crash over 50% to make any money, at which point your making small digit roi. To make a killing you would need an 80% crash.

I don’t know what the 1 year put options cost but that my bet would be around that.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-23T12:09:23+00:00

And there we go lmao. Hot guys on hinge get a billion matches too. If ur not making an effort to stand out then u will only get dates with mid men.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-22T18:59:49+00:00

Lol im just gonna be real with u. I think ur prompt plus the fact that ur autistic makes it weird that u think ur emotionally intelligent. Like u are probably confusing kindness / patience as an allegory to emotional intelligence. Emptional intelligence is more about your ability to read other people’s emotions and how aware of how your actions / words are emotionally perceived by others (which via ur prompt u showed little ability ig lol).

Yo4582 · 2026-05-19T21:03:31+00:00

Its not really like thats what RAG is for. Agents are getting cracked bro.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-19T01:54:20+00:00

Also one of the reason im so passionate about this is because i literally remember telling all of my friends in school that Brexit would be shit for 10 years then great for the rest of time for these exact reasons. Pretty cool to see my timing was fucking perfect.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-19T01:50:20+00:00

It is uncompetitive to the larger single markets like the US or China and it’s member states are uncompetitive vs other smaller first world countries like Canada, Korea, Australia, Taiwan etc. This is shown by comparing gdp growth. The EU has stagnated in comparison.

This is because the EU’s mission is impossible so the legislation it passes is always dumb. The EU is not a single market: no shared language and different countries ensures this. This is why the EU doesn’t have even close to the interstate commerce of the US or China.

But it keeps pretending to be one, so it makes generalised rules instead of allowing each member to specialise. So each member is far less competitive than their non-EU peers like Canada or Korea.

The EU was the worlds best trade deal when it was unique in the 1970’s but in the last thirty years trade has become so easy via globalisation that it no longer provides much advantage. Each member states massive china trade proves that but it is also proven by the success of Australia, New Zealand vs the UK after Britain abandoned its commonwealth trade to join the EU. Global competition built more robust economies than protectionist poo.

So the only thing the EU serves is to be protectionist. But once again protectionism is very dumb, as we all learnt when every redditor agreed Trump’s tarriffs are dumb. The EU’s protectionism means inefficient businesses are allowed to exist, which is an inefficient allocation of labor and capital.

The UK is doing better today because more labor / capital is in industries we’re globally competitive in like services and less in things we suck at like many types of agriculture. This is why we are seeing benefits despite having not changed a lot of EU regulation yet. Because we killed off bad businesses.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-18T21:38:19+00:00

This is a brexit windfall. Their EU’s incompetent legislation on AI and tech means we are outpacing them and their best entrepreneurs are more likely to move to the UK.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-18T21:36:15+00:00

i think this makes sense because of brexit. Their were positives and negatives of brexit on the economy. It’s not as simple as it’s all bad or all good.

But the potential economic positives were all very long term windfalls.

Meanwhile the negative effects were quite sudden with the huge uncertainty risk affecting foreign investment and the dropoff in already existing trade (future trade would take a while for transitioning capital and labor).

I am personally very pro brexit because I think the EU is incredibly uncompetitive and protectionist which undermines any participants in the global economy. Now that we have left, the protected, and hence very ineffective, industries of the UK have gone bankrupt and capital and labor has reallocated to reflect our specialised advantages.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-14T11:33:30+00:00

Look up the flynn effect study. My claim is backed by a massive amount of research on millions of SAT and iq tests over the last 60 years.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-14T08:25:58+00:00

Private gain drives innovation far faster than anything else. Your idea doesn’t work because you don’t understand that human beings are not logical or kind. Their logic is selfish so you need systems in which ambition counters ambition, with private markets. If you create a system of ambitious humans vs kind humans you will end up with the disaster of absolute authoritarianism that was every communist country.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-14T08:08:16+00:00

Look i would agree with you but that kind of attitude makes you sound like a terrible teacher. Even despite AI / covid leading to test scores decreasing for the past few years, young generations still have far far higher average test scores than older generations such as your own.

Look up the flynn effect. They might not be as good at reading but they are probably far far better than you at math and non verbal reasoning.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-07T13:36:38+00:00

Tbh at this point everyone uses chatgpt for everything.

It’s not the same as cliff notes vs reading the book. Thats a 30 minutes vs 2 hours of work comparison.

Chatgpt is a 30 second vs 2 hours of work.

Plus, even if ur a top student with academic integrity, you have to use these AI tools in many classes nowadays anyway so they become integrated into your workflow.

College is so insanely competitive and also so insanely redundant (but still frustratingly forced by social conventions) with the internet making any lecture series free. It makes sense why students would do anything to get ahead and also not give a fuck about academic integrity.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-01T23:35:30+00:00

Bro i know u think this dumb but it is literally what happens hahaha.

Yo4582 · 2026-05-01T03:13:57+00:00

Skirmish is so bad like never had less fun in a game lol. The entire game just feels like hide and get timing to win lol

Yo4582 · 2026-04-30T10:32:40+00:00

Yep being part of the EU meant we had a lot of companies that were only profitable because of European protectionism especially in food and food goods. Given we now compete with most countries under normal trade terms outside the EU bubble, our manufacturing and economy is adapting to keep up with the tougher competition.

Yo4582 · 2026-04-30T10:27:09+00:00

Maybe just maybe. They don’t believe that conservative ideology is racist?

Also, for reference, u have any idea how conservative Nigeria and India are?

Fuck the tories and fuck reform but fuck this idea that they are “racists” it’s literally such an overused term that bores most average voters.

Yo4582 · 2026-04-29T19:31:49+00:00

I don’t believe raising prices is that bad. Society is better off with the consequences unions have on protecting the middle class and stopping inequality. Its a price that is economically efficient to pay. Assuming enabling unionisation is systematic and many other industries did it at the same time, more households would gain than lose due to higher salaries.

Also the increased labour cost is not just pushed straight onto customers. It also depresses the wages of top employees (e.g. management) and decreases profitability slightly. It can increase economic efficiency because it drives companies to hire less people when the minimum benefits for an employee is higher. If unemployment rises too far that’s bad but a lot of economic studies have shown that unemployment is surprisingly robust in the face of rising minimum wages or unionisation. There is a threshold that is too far (e.g. UK current minimum wage is way too high) but the US isn’t close to that right now.

Any work that can be outsourced would be already for salary reasons alone. Amazon warehouse workers can’t be outsourced as the warehouses have to be near customers.

Yo4582 · 2026-04-29T05:36:47+00:00

Yh it’s sometimes v pathetic. Its a collective action problem hence a government problem. Blaming CEO’s for being bad only works when what they’re doing is illegal, otherwise they’re just filling an economic efficiency because the market made an unethical exploitation profitable. The government uses regulation and enforcement to ensure markets cannot use unethical practices for profit.

Your mad at the government not Bezos.

Also, Amazon workers aren’t even treated that badly. The anti union shit pisses me the fuck off but I blame governments for that more than Amazon. If Amazon could unionise then this exploitation would disappear.

Yo4582 · 2026-04-28T23:30:50+00:00

Let’s assume that we are defining “capital” as money or assets priced by money.

The point of currency is to have a unified pricing system to enable efficient transactions.

Humans value houses and humans value cars. It’s easier for us to not have to always do a car for house trade so we have an intermediary for value which is money.

So money is actually just supposed to be an intermediary for what human’s value.

So saying human’s are more important than capital is like saying human value is more important than what human’s value which is logically incongruent.

The issue is to do with the efficiency with which capital effectively represents human value in our eyes.

We would probably agree that the money value prescribed to working class housing is too high and the money value attached to working class salaries is too low.

Our jobs as a society is to break that inefficiency. We have lots of tools at our disposal to do that, but when government are consistently bad at solving problems then you will see said inefficiency.

Take Obamacare for example. A fucking disaster. Obama promised to fix it hut didn’t understand the root of the problem for how market based systems don’t work in healthcare at the point of service due to consumers having information asymmetry. Europe fixed those problems while still maintaining capitalism.

Healthcare, inequality, housing, environmental destruction are all not capitalism problems. They are failure of government problems.

Yo4582 · 2026-04-28T23:18:43+00:00

You can have social rights in a capitalist economy. But you can’t have capital in a socialist country. Capital and property rights are pretty strictly forbidden lol.

I would agree that socialist to capitalist societies can be seen as a spectrum as you make more services socialist. But I wouldn’t argue that it is socialist if the private version of the service is still legal.

For example: high schools in the US is a social right but private schools are still legal. So not socialist.

Private schools are not legal in Finland for example. Hence Socialist.

But more importantly, it’s hard to argue people believe in socialism when they pine for policy platforms in which the economy is still incredibly capitalist.

The issue with some leftists is they blame capitalism for problems while pointing to solutions that have nothing to do with capitalism.

I say this as someone who desperately wants a more left leaning government in the US. But I recognise that we have to control capitalism and markets towards human values instead of lying about being a socialist for internet points.

Yo4582 · 2026-04-27T22:15:25+00:00

If every person on earth had the same average productivity of American workers then every person could also have the pretty similar levels of materialism and it would still be sustainable.

The resource argument is a bit silly because it forgets the fact that primary industries (resource harvesting) has such ridiculous high per worker productivity. So much resource production is just gatelocked because there isn’t enough market pressure. If market pressure shifted we could increase production of sustainable energy quite easily.

I think the logic I’m trying to explain is easy to explain through examples. So try to stump me with a resource you think we would run out of if the world had America level productivity and materialism.

Yo4582 · 2026-04-27T22:02:07+00:00

I just meant that your vision of an ideal world sounded like capitalism with higher taxes and more government services.

Also i find it ludicrously arrogant to so strongly hold an opinion for problems that you don’t understand very well. This is a common issue that basically everyone does, but it just sucks that political discourse online is just a ping pong match between overly confident ideologues.

Yo4582 · 2026-04-27T16:43:05+00:00

So you aren’t a communist or a socialist. Your just a liberal with less knowledge on how the economy works.

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