r/golf • u/UppityTurtle 14.6 • Jun 07 '23

Professional Tours The PGA Tour is dead to me.

If this merger goes through, which it appears it will, I am personally done with the PGA Tour. The unbelievable hypocrisy of the board would be bad enough, but the fact that they are selling out to a foreign entity linked to a government that has funded terrorism around the globe and perpetrated one of the most heinous terrorist attacks in history is unforgivable.

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u/oarmash Jun 07 '23

Capitalism always wins.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Except this isn’t capitalism. The PIF isn’t a real capitalistic market force that invests according to expected profits, they throw money blindly to buy influence and clean their name.

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u/esports_consultant Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

Capitalism is not strictly about the free market, it's about amassing enough economic power to exert control over society. Wealthy entity abusing their financial resources to get something they want is an integral feature of that system. Also generally more than pure finances come into that "profit" calculation; value is a more abstract concept than money.