Because it's just another form of bread and circus to placate the masses while Rome burns all around them. Sports, IMO, brings very little long-term benefit to

Because it's just another form of bread and circus to placate the masses while Rome burns all around them. Sports, IMO, brings very little long-term benefit to our society, especially compared to the money sunk into it. Who were any of the winners of $main_sports_event back when Bach composed his first works? Who took home the gold in the Olympics when Plato wrote down the Socratic Dialogues? Cultures are not remembered by the sports heroes they produce. Yet Western society puts a staggering amount of money, importance, and social standing into the sports-industrial complex, and I feel that it is to our detriment. I'd much rather see music, art, and even the STEM disciplines take a more equal share of the BILLIONS plowed into 'sports! sports! sports!' I just feel that, like cupcakes, sports is a 'sometimes' thing whose consumption has grown way out of proportion to the value it brings us.