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Originally Posted by Bandwagon Surfer
Sports arenas are such a scam. We take hunders of millions of tax payers money, gift it to billionaires to subsidize their toys, and get practically nothing in return.
They are promoted based on the idea that they will bring economic benefits to the region. When actually measured we repeatedly see that those economic benefits never materialize and are a tiny fraction of what was promised. But corrupt politicians ignore the economic realities, ignore all the real data, promote fantasies and lies about the project's economics so that they can funnel money to their friends while ignoring the hard problems they should actually be working on.
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Yes, but without it we wouldn’t be able to cheer for laundry.
Think of the cultural ramifications.