Warning: <satire ahead>
As you watch the Olympics, consider this: The worldwide sports industry spends something like $500 billion to $1.25 trillion every year.
What a shameless waste of money.
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As you watch the Olympics, consider this: The worldwide sports industry spends something like $500 billion to $1.25 trillion every year.
What a shameless waste of money.
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Imagine how much poverty could be ended, how much climate change could be stopped, how much wealth inequality could be reduced, if that money was not wasted on the playtime of a few athletes and the beer-guzzling couch potatoes who watch them.
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Just imagine it. We could solve all the world's problems with that money. What a shameful waste. Every year.
The Earth is burning, and a bunch of guys are wasting as much as a trillion dollars a year, just so they can play with their balls.
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The Earth is burning, and a bunch of guys are wasting as much as a trillion dollars a year, just so they can play with their balls.
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We need to tax the shit out of this useless sham called "professional sports."
</satire>
Don't @ me about how ridiculous that argument is. I know it's ridiculous.
Professional sports serves lots of vital purposes, even if I have no idea what they are.
Plus, it's fun.
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</satire>
Don't @ me about how ridiculous that argument is. I know it's ridiculous.
Professional sports serves lots of vital purposes, even if I have no idea what they are.
Plus, it's fun.
4/5
The people who enjoy sports are free to do whatever they want with their money.
Any resemblance the above satire has to any recent fauxrage about the expenditure of a fraction of that money to advance human colonization of other worlds--is one hellova coincidence, isn't it?
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Any resemblance the above satire has to any recent fauxrage about the expenditure of a fraction of that money to advance human colonization of other worlds--is one hellova coincidence, isn't it?
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