The social media era pressures us to document everything.
Galleries filled with images of mundane moments, shared with almost no one.
Thousands of posts feeding the algorithm, seen by almost no one, created out of habit rather than meaning.
A form of digital ennui.
Just my take โ this is a no brainer. Manchester United is an endangered club, it is literary on track of being extinct.
๐บNow you sound more braindead than normal Swedish, what are you talking about? United is on track of being extinct โ albeit it could be 50-100 years away or whatever. 200 years. I have no idea but that is the direction of travel, I do know that.
This is an unpleasant truth โ but if we like look at the age group 10-20 y/o โ I think City has more supporters on the planet than United. Liverpool and Arsenal will easily have 3x the number of supporters on the planet in the age group 10-20, than United has. Easily.
But since 1 billion dads support United, most kids will do to? I am of course just guessing, but in Sweden itโs rare with a 10-20 y/o who supports United. My son would have been 18 now and my daughters are 16 and 12. Iโve been around three football teams over 10 years and 100s of youth players and their siblings. 2-3 supports United that Iโve seen. Someone like Gimoro is a perfect example. Showed up dressed in United red at age 6, dad supported United, 3 years later Gimoro wore a City shirt.
๐บThe thing is โ kids today outside the UK that does not have a parent that support United, does not support United. Take 100 kids and remove the ones with dads who are United fans in Sweden, and at least 99 will support City, Liverpool or Arsenal. It will be the same in all of Europe โ unless there is โspecial causeโ. Like Slovenian kids will start to support United due to Sesko.
United is as big as it is today since United was the most successful club when the interest of the PL exploded in the 90s. Ten years made an enormous difference. If this happened during 1980 to 1989 United would not be as big globally.
If United continue to be a club that is ~top 3-8 in the PL for x number of years, global following and consequently sponsorship income will not be competitive.
The situation is fairly desperate to be honest. The only thing that matters is of course that things are turned around on the pitch. But everything must be done to improve the odds of that.
The most funny thing I notice after moving out of Nairobi 6 years ago is going out to a local and finding the most random village guy playing rap or dancehall on the aux.
One time I was in Lugari and saw a girl playing the W.A.P song while selling sim cards at the local market
Hospital admins are out here begging suppliers for basic things like gloves but yeah, let's fine them for not having the drugs that we did not supply them
SHA: Public Hospitals Warned
Hospitals warned against sending patients to purchase drugs
Mwangangi: Public hospitals involved will face hefty penalties
SHA rolls out biometric registration for children aged 7 to 17
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๐๐ The ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ of the 2026 World Cup
๐ธ๐ณ Senegal
๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco
๐จ๐ฎ Ivory Coast
๐น๐ท Turkey
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
๐ณ๐ด Norway
Andโฆ Ecuador ๐ช๐จ
You are richer than the most powerful king who ever ruled France.
In 1715, Louis XIV ran an empire from Versailles. He died of gangrene in his leg, an infection a $4 box of antibiotics would clear today.
The richest, most powerful man in Europe, killed by something your local pharmacy fixes in a week.
By any absolute measure, you live better than he did. Yet almost no one feels rich. Because wealth, for most people, isn't absolute. It's relative.
In 1995 two Harvard researchers asked 257 people: would you rather earn $50k while everyone around you earns $25k, or earn $100k while everyone earns $200k? Twice the money in the second case. Half chose the first. They picked being objectively poorer just to stay ahead of the people next to them.
That's the trap. If your scoreboard is other people, you've entered a zero sum game you can't win. There's always a bigger boat.
The only way out is to stop comparing and start creating. Building isn't zero sum. It's the one infinite game worth playing.