The disparity in investment between MLB and the video game industry underscores a macroeconomic reality: evolving entertainment preferences and technological adaptability are crucial to attracting investment
The case of Frederick II is not unique, but it is pioneering. Centuries later, behavioral psychologists like Watson and Skinner also attempted to mold the human mind as if it were clay. In the 20th century, history would repeat its cruel experiment with the babies of Nazism, Soviet orphanages, and newborn nurseries in Romania
If Iran decided to shut it down, the planet wouldn't go to war... but it would go into panic, because there's nothing more cowardly and fearful than money. But the real question is whether Iran can shut it down, has the capacity to do so, because if it wants to, it surely would.
The narrative was anime-like: high pressure, team play, surgical precision, and a script that wrote itself. What was once a Japanese fantasy is now an official FIFA statistic.
Oliver Atom didn't play for the national team, but Tsubasa's spirit was in every pass, every goal, every second of the final 70 minutes.
Society has changed: artificial intelligence, human longevity, the legalization of steroids, and gender equality have reshaped sports, making them co-ed and more spectacular. Shohei Ohtani, once a star, became the most influential commissioner in history, spearheading structural and labor reforms.
Can baseball still call itself competitive when nine teams pay more luxury taxes than others invest in their entire rosters? This investigation exposes the truth behind the eternal salary debate: an MLB with no formal salary cap but with obscene inequalities, versus an NFL that, with its pinpoint cap, distributes glory and money with financial maneuvering.
The problem isn't that students don't know how to program in Python or that they can't pass a PISA-type exam. The problem is that they can't—and aren't allowed to—ask themselves why they program, for whom, and at what cost
"Squid Games" exposes that model: debt as a trap, the game as an ideology, the camera as a judge. All the contestants are ordinary citizens driven by their own financial misfortunes. None of them are criminals by choice. They are criminalized by the system.
It's not about living in a digital simulation. It's about living in a consensual lie. A routine anesthetized by consumption, entertainment, and ubiquitous technology. Cypher said it while enjoying his imaginary steak: "Ignorance is bliss"
It's an intellectual operation. A survival manual for a declining superpower seeking to maintain its balance in the face of a patient civilization. It's also a warning for those who still believe that the global liberal order can be imposed through sanctions.