• devious@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Offering an alternative and mostly unpopular view, there are lot of things that society should spend that may not always have a great financial return on investment but will contribute to the culture of society (sports, art, entertainment, history, etc).

    That said I do think the Commonwealth Games is a massive cost sink during poor financial conditions and sports already gets a disproportionate amount of funding compared to the others so I don’t think this is necessarily a bad move!

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Even if you deliberately target “blowing millions of dollars with no expectation of a return”, there are still better things to spend the money on.