[ SECRET POST #2414 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2414 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Akumu-chan / My Little Nightmare]


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Deanna Troi]


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04.
[The Borgias]


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[Kaiba Seto and Jounouchi Katsuya from Yu-gi-oh!]


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06.
[Spring Breakers]


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07.
[Murder Rooms]


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08.
[Twin Peaks]


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09.
[Mass Effect]


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10.
[Despicable Me 2]


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[Ice Age]


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12.
[Arrested Development]


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13.
[Super Junior]


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14.
[Halloween]


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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: What do you think of the Olympics boycott?

[(Anonymous)]

That's an almost nonsensical way of framing the question, though.

The first thing that you have to take into consideration here is that lots and lots of people really, really like sports, and are very willing to pay tons of money. That's the fundamental factor here. The popularity and economic structure of sports is not something that is entirely imposed from outside; on some level, it's the result of the choices and preferences of consumers. The reason, for instance, that sports TV stations are able to demand exorbitant rates for bundling their stations in is because there's tons of sports fans who would demand to be able to see games, and stations know that they need to be able to offer those stations. In other words, it's because there's enormous demand for the product (of course, this may be changing shortly, and TV providers may be reevaluating how willing they are to make that tradeoff).

Of course, sports have also been beneficiaries of corporate welfare, among other things - things like extortionate stadium deals, government-protected monopoly, etc - and I don't support those things at all. If I had my way, every professional sports team in the world would be run like the Green Bay Packers - owned by a community-based fan trust. But even so, at the end of the day, the economic basis for sport is the millions of people who support sports teams and like watching sports. The economics of sports might change if teams had to build their own stadiums, but I am willing to bet that they would not disappear entirely, because sports teams are still massively profitable entities even without that support (which is part of what makes it so objectionable).

So, yeah, at the end of the day, these things are based on the fact that people really like sports. Do you really think it's morally objectionable for them to like sports? Because if it's not, it seems kind of bizarre for me to talk about whether or not sports "helps" the economy - it's something that exists because people want it to, and that's okay.

Re: What do you think of the Olympics boycott?

[thene]

I was responding to anon's comment claiming that sports help the economy. If you think it's a bizarre topic I suggest you reply to them, not me. But sports teams are not universally profitable, and they benefit hugely on the downside from government support and other subsidies - they're rarely allowed to carry their own losses.

But yeah, sports would be a lot less messed up and a lot less open to criticism without the subsidies - from governments, from cable bundling, or from universities. Then we'd get to find out how many of them are really profitable or even solvent.

Re: What do you think of the Olympics boycott?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay cool.

I think it depends hugely on which sport. But I think sports in general would still survive, it would just look different - ranging from shrinking dramatically in terms of resources in NCAA football, to not changing much at all in the case of the NBA. In something like MLB or NFL, the changes would mostly be somewhat smaller contracts, especially at the top end.

Like I said above, I think it's a matter of reform, not of getting rid of the thing entirely.

Re: What do you think of the Olympics boycott?

[(Anonymous)]

I think the problem isn't that they wouldn't be profitable or capable of solvency; it's that subsidies have allowed for the inflation of costs, particularly those surrounding player and coach salaries. I think said salaries would see a huge reduction if subsidies were eliminated. And I personally would welcome said reduction.