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The citizens of those countries. There are many better things Brazil should be spending their money on, and many people living in terrible conditions who they s
by wjoe 10y ago
The citizens of those countries. There are many better things Brazil should be spending their money on, and many people living in terrible conditions who they should be helping.
Many countries and cities who have actually asked their people whether they want an Olympics in the last few years have voted no, for example Oslo in Norway and Stockholm in Sweden.
- mathattack 10y agoYou can make the argument at a lot of places, but Brazil is a democracy. They voted for the candidates who pitched the idea of hosting the Olympics, and it had a mass of popular support. If the IOC runs out of countries willing to host it, then perhaps the host cities will be able to temper how much they want to spend on it. The Olympics don't have to be so elaborate.
- vkou 10y agoBe it in a democracy or a dictatorship, consent for a special interest is relatively easy to manufacture.
- the_watcher 10y agoThe IOC won't run out of countries who want to host it so long as countries with rampant corruption exist. The timeline of the Olympics is a corrupt developers wet dream.
- cmurf 10y agoI did not down vote this or the other comment, but I disagree that Brazil is a democracy. It's at best a polyarchy, and is probably just an oligarchy. The voting component is a veneer of democracy to make enough of the citizenry seem essentially complicit with the bad ideas of the leaders.
- tajen 10y agoIOC would make a fortune if citizen could bribe to avoid hosting the Olympics.