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One of the nice things about China is that they don't sell off naming rights to their stadiums to the highest bidding advertiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

One of the nice things about China is that they don't sell off naming rights to their stadiums to the highest bidding advertiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_in_China

seattle_spring 5y ago
That's always bothered me about stadiums here in the US. There's one in Seattle with this joke of a name: "Climate Pledge Arena."
- toast0 5y ago
  Climate Pledge, brought to you by SC Johnson, cleans and polishes your surfaces in more varied conditions for people who live in extreme climates. Makes sense they'd sponsor a hockey arena. /s
- loosetypes 5y ago
  Similar but unrelated, the audacity to post-facto denote something a Netflix Original.
- brewdad 5y ago
  Considering Amazon is paying for that name, I find it far more appealing than "Amazon Prime 2-Day Delivery Arena".
  - seattle_spring 5y ago
    Or "Bang Bros Arena": https://www.insider.com/porn-site-bangbros-bid-10-million-naming-rights-miami-stadium-2019-9 https://www.insider.com/porn-site-bangbros-bid-10-million-na...
- wang_li 5y ago
  It's the home of the Seattle Krakens. We call it the Krakhaus.
anm89 5y ago
Sounds like a good trade for concentration camps and organ harvesting.
kube-system 5y ago
Why is that nice? Shouldn't we want to encourage the rich to finance large projects of cultural benefit?
- Marsymars 5y ago
  Not via naming right. It’s garish, feels dystopian, and leads to misplaced incentives, where the building of projects of cultural benefit is affected by how useful their naming rights are for advertisers. Should we also try to auction off names for other large public projects? Dams? Power plants? Schools? Highways? If we want the rich to finance large projects of cultural benefit, the appropriate mechanism for doing so is via taxation.
donarb 5y ago
Except former Wukesong Arena in Bejing has been named "MasterCard Center", "LeSports Center" and is now "Cadillac Center". Then there's "Mercedes-Benz Arena" in Shanghai. Shaanxi Province Stadium was for a few years named "Coca-Cola Stadium".

seattle_spring 5y ago

That's always bothered me about stadiums here in the US. There's one in Seattle with this joke of a name: "Climate Pledge Arena."

toast0 5y ago
Climate Pledge, brought to you by SC Johnson, cleans and polishes your surfaces in more varied conditions for people who live in extreme climates. Makes sense they'd sponsor a hockey arena. /s
loosetypes 5y ago
Similar but unrelated, the audacity to post-facto denote something a Netflix Original.
brewdad 5y ago
Considering Amazon is paying for that name, I find it far more appealing than "Amazon Prime 2-Day Delivery Arena".
- seattle_spring 5y ago
  Or "Bang Bros Arena": https://www.insider.com/porn-site-bangbros-bid-10-million-naming-rights-miami-stadium-2019-9 https://www.insider.com/porn-site-bangbros-bid-10-million-na...
wang_li 5y ago
It's the home of the Seattle Krakens. We call it the Krakhaus.

anm89 5y ago

Sounds like a good trade for concentration camps and organ harvesting.

kube-system 5y ago

Why is that nice? Shouldn't we want to encourage the rich to finance large projects of cultural benefit?

Marsymars 5y ago
Not via naming right. It’s garish, feels dystopian, and leads to misplaced incentives, where the building of projects of cultural benefit is affected by how useful their naming rights are for advertisers. Should we also try to auction off names for other large public projects? Dams? Power plants? Schools? Highways? If we want the rich to finance large projects of cultural benefit, the appropriate mechanism for doing so is via taxation.

donarb 5y ago

Except former Wukesong Arena in Bejing has been named "MasterCard Center", "LeSports Center" and is now "Cadillac Center". Then there's "Mercedes-Benz Arena" in Shanghai. Shaanxi Province Stadium was for a few years named "Coca-Cola Stadium".