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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Nobody is comparing them in terms as subjective as entertainment value. But I’m not sure proponents of public spending on an arena really want to go down the path of comparing the societal value of things like a YMCA or a library to something like a pro-hockey arena, so I might just leave that one alone if I were you.
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Or, we can accept that not all things are equal, with respect to societal value, but we still want them. Otherwise, if we are going to do the comparison game every time, we will basically be down to schools and hospitals.
However, the world is a little bigger and more complicated than that, and the city budget is $7B/yr so that gives us a little wiggle room to include some other things.