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Do you feel the same way about sport: > Sports-related costs for the Summer Games since 1960 is on average $5.2 billion (USD) and for the Winter Games $393.1 m
by philipswood 3y ago
Do you feel the same way about sport:
> Sports-related costs for the Summer Games since 1960 is on average $5.2 billion (USD) and for the Winter Games $393.1 million dollars. The highest recorded total cost was the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, costing approximately US$55 billion.
Or entertainment:
> Whereas the average Hollywood film costs around $100 million to produce, the expenditures of the top 11 most expensive movies exceeded a whopping $300 million, adjusted for inflation.
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- louwrentius 3y agoNo
- ben_w 3y agoI do feel that way about sports — negatively, that they're a waste of time and resources that encourage the worst tribal instincts. But big sports make people happy and they're only expensive compared to individuals, not compared to economies, so I don't try to campaign against what (sometimes little) joy other people can get in their lives. Films are kinda weird now Starship — a billionaire's vanity project that doesn't have any current reasonable economic purpose (given SpaceX is already 75% of total planet-wide tonnage to orbit not just US) — is getting close to the point that Moon (2009) could reasonably be filmed on the actual Moon for the film's original ($5m) budget.