Out Of Left Field Essay

Capitalism is a society where large number of people work hard and sell their labours to limited number of people who generate and accumulate large amount of wealth and uneven wealth creates an unequal society that still exists in our society(----). This is where the poor become poorer and rich become richer everyday and nobody raise an eyebrow because it is all about unequal power distribution and social positions among individuals in the society. In capitalism society proletariats work hard to maximize the profits of capitalists through purchase and exploitation of labour (book, page 136).

Gamal Abdel-Shehid and N. Kalman-Lamb illustrated it in the chapter 2 of Out of left field that sport is one example of how capitalists make profit through

Alienation of labour is present in high performance sports that cause athletes to work hard and maximize the revenue and profits of their owners in the expense of themselves, usually their physical and psychosocial being. As it was stated in chapter 2 of Out of Field, “most of the athletes are below poverty line and only minimal amount of them are able to reach the stage where they compete in the league teams at a national

As Foucault says, “control and labelling the athletes force them to follow a certain route of expertise, knowledge and discipline that encourage them to police themselves and follow a certain normalized standard model”(). This type of knowledge hugely impacts athlete’s lifestyle in a way that they try to “make minimal errors, become passive in decision-making and active in following standards set by capitalists”. This type of routine and normalize lifestyle make athletes powerless and out of control of their lives which unable them to be able to manage their