| kitler53 said:
when salt lake city hosted the winter olympics they did so underbudget and made a profit. sounds like this isn't a problem of the olypics but your problem. (1) ..but remember this too. there are other less tangitable benefits to hosting the olympics than just looking at the budget. the whole world is looking at you for weeks. things like this drive tourism which i'd wager is a milti billion dollar industry for you. my top google serach said this: The total value of tourism to the UK is set to rise by more than 60% to £188 billion (1) over the next decade, says an independent report commissioned by VisitBritain. (2) marketing is an investment in your future. no different for countries than for products (like 3rd party wii games am i right?) (3) |
1) It's right up there in the OP: "'Im going to just bullet point some of my views, which range from the Olympics in general, to the specifics of the London Olympics."
2) I don't care about the tourism industry. If the tourism industry wants to invest their own money in improving the tourism industry, let them. Don't take mine.
Also, I'd hardly call an institution that is set to benefit from the Olympics, without having to pay for it, "independent". That's like asking the MPAA to estimate the costs of piracy.
3) It's not an investment in mine, and I don't want anybody else to invest in my future. Let me do that, and you do yours. (Not directed at you, but society in general) Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person, nowadays, who was brought up to accept personal responsibility for my own life.
But, there is a massive difference between countries and products. When Ubisoft spends money marketing their third party Wii games, they spend their own money, money that they've earned - not my money. When the god-knows-how-many-agencies-involved-in-the-Olympics spends money, they haven't earned it, they've taken it, from those that have, without their permission, and, sometimes, without their knowledge.
