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Originally Posted by Muta
Lots of industries and thousands and thousands of citizens would have benefitted from that infrastructure getting built. Lots. This would have been the shot in the arm that this city needs. Oil and gas isn't the only industry in this city that matters. Not sure where those thousands of jobs will now be found elsewhere.
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Jobs aren't created out of nowhere. Money has to be injected into the system for the jobs to be created. The question is (which will never be found out): would the net economic change be positive after all the costs are dealt with, and is this net change better than what would have happened without hosting?
Even post analysis has a lot of question marks. There are net benefits generally, albeit small, but would they be greater than if the city had not hosted? The authors even postulate that just having the resources to bid on the games may indicate the economy trending positively.
So take that thin margin of error for net benefit and look at our bid. The disconnect comes when you look at the lack of planning done by our bid compared to some previous. It was not well done.