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[QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 4634182, member: 6979"]
unfortunately, the socioeconomic system in the US will turn anything it can into a money machine - [I]without limit[/I]...to the maximum degree possible.

amateurism and purity simply cannot last in such an environment...

anything good will ultimately be full exploited.

regulation is needed...its the only chance to save anything worthy of being saved from the vultures who are "just doing their jobs" (although the process of regulating things is also highly commercialized, as well, unfortunately)

hard to blame the players for the failings of the system that exploits them...but they also do have a duty to protect the institution they are benefitting from...I don't blame them but I alos don't excuse them, either.

it's very symptomatic of this era - most people no longer feel any sort of duty at all to protect whatever institution or tradition that they themselves benefit from - and, as such, many of those institutions and traditions are disintigrating before our eyes.
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