The Cuban system was a state-funded talent pipeline that treated boxing as a socialist duty, not a trade, which is why professional sport was banned for decades. The ban ended not due to ideology, but economic necessity, allowing athletes to earn foreign currency. From my plot, I know a system built only on pride, not sustenance, will eventually bend. My pineapples thrive on care I can afford, not on theory—so too did those boxers need a living wage.
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