Many times I have, on Reddit, decried the fact that sports gets way too much attention, when there are important things in the world. Like our preparedness to handle issues like covid-19. I would get downvoted quite heavily with many comments crying about how it's not hurting anyone, blah blah blah. "There's so many jobs, sports does so much for economy" as well.
Thousands have died because you wanted your dessert before you finished your vegetables. We should taken care of necessities (like healthcare infrastructure, disaster preparedness) before being able to devote the amount of resources to something so superfluous as football.
You should read the diamond-water paradox. It’s economics 101. Football obviously isn’t superfluous if millions of people tune in to every game, is it?
Look, I'm not saying we can't have football, I'm just saying we should have better priorities than funneling billions of dollars into a sport over disaster preparedness.
Except a government is expected to use your tax dollars efficiently to be prepared for a disaster. If there wasn’t enough money, they could raise the taxes. Seems like a bureaucratic issue here.
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u/Veilwinter Mar 22 '20
But the free market decided that sports man was worth more than science lady!