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Having permanent location will kill the very business model of Olympics, which is to allow participating entities to drain ridiculous amounts of money from the
by abcd_f 5y ago
Having permanent location will kill the very business model of Olympics, which is to allow participating entities to drain ridiculous amounts of money from the next location and to ensure the well-being of the Olympics selection committee through the kickbacks and bribes.
Saying it as someone who had to have to endure Olympics stuffed down their throat as a “lucky winner,” only to be shafted with extra taxes for several years to pay for all that fun, unity and celebration of sportsmanship.
Olympic Games as they exist now are corrupted to the core. It might be just easier to fork the venue than to clean it up.
- lordnacho 5y agoYou're right of course, it's become a weird international boondoggle benefiting old suited men across the globe. It could actually be a good thing for some billionaire to do: get your name in history, make a difference to a non-essential area (sports/arts), have a town built the way you like it.
- jollybean 5y ago"which is to allow participating entities to drain ridiculous amounts of money from the next location" Almost - it's the local government stealing money from tax base of local citizens though. The IOC and Olympics itself is not getting rich, other than as individuals via bribery but that is small change compared to the local graft.