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[QUOTE="qdawgg, post: 3126829, member: 52"]
sorry but that’s not communism. In reality it’s more like capitalism. Players have a choice not to enter into agreement with the schools/ncaa. The schools/ncaa created a system that they benefit from the workers, the workers themselves have the choice to not enter into that agreement. The schools/ncaa would argue without them existing the players have no market value. That is the value the schools/ncaa add to the equation, among other things such as the ability through working together to create financially beneficial tv contracts. Which those contracts allow the schools to continue to fund the programs the players are benefiting from.

now what you’re arguing about is whether the players are getting a fair stake/equity in this arrangement or not. Karl Marx would probably agree with you that they aren’t. However the capitalist would argue the whole system ceases to exist without the schools/ncaa.

so it’s not really like communism except it’s an easy expression to throw out there.  But you could argue it’s more like a free market system  with the winner of the system being the schools/ncaa.  And if you agree the government should correct this system, wouldn’t that actually be more like communism then a free market system?
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