<story><title>Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/taxpayers-are-paying-billions-for-nfl-stadiums-heres-how.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t care about organized sports much, and big collegiate sports are basically under my radar. But I&amp;#x27;ll tell you something -- some of the best &amp;quot;leaders&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;ve hired over the years were athletes -- especially collegiate athletes -- especially female athletes in underappreciated sports.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s an incredible drive there to tactics, organization, consensus building, and so on that I never appreciated while growing up as a nerd in tech. Later, when I ended up with an employee who had both a strong tech and sports background I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; started to appreciate the benefits of a collegiate sports education.&lt;p&gt;That all being said, professional sport appear to be out of control in a similar way that k-pop, appears to be. The real problem is that, outside of monetary compensation for themselves and their agents, these job categories offer very little in the way of societal benefit. They aren&amp;#x27;t building homes for the homeless nor are they curing cancer or colonizing Mars.&lt;p&gt;A nearly endless supply of new recruits, combined with limited professional positions plus the modern celebrity-industrial-complex, creates and endlessly toxic environment that sends young people into career funnels that produce failed &amp;lt;insert job&amp;gt; instead of successful &amp;lt;insert social benefit&amp;gt;.&lt;p&gt;Conversely, when I was going to my higher education, the universities were overrun with incoming students who had been convinced that Computer Science was the way to a stable and prosperous career regardless of their personal passions for the field and the industrial uses for CS graduates.&lt;p&gt;Tax subsidies to pro-sports systems appear to be nothing more than a social cancer in the same way. Tens of thousands of sports hopefuls literally erasing years from their lives so that they might have a chance at a lower-tier professional feeder league -- which again contributes very little to overall society -- if Football disappeared tomorrow, it would have very little long-term disruption to anybody.&lt;p&gt;Bread and Circuses are only valuable to bakeries and race course hot dog vendors.</text></comment>
<story><title>Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/taxpayers-are-paying-billions-for-nfl-stadiums-heres-how.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>winternett</author><text>What is even more troubling to me is how an athlete can make 60 million dollars a year, and why tickets to games can cost $800 and up while our tax dollars subsidize it all... Back in the day there was a brutal revolution on taxing tea...&lt;p&gt;Now people are totally cool with student loans and mortgages indenturing our children for life while defense spending is astronomically higher than the moon.&lt;p&gt;Even mortgage interest deductions were gutted in the last 4 years.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m no revolutionary, and I painfully pay my fair share every year, but there is not much fair about taxes, and as usual it&amp;#x27;s always a costly lie to everyone that obeys the law&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>