• LeonineAlpha@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    Living in one of the recent cities listed

    Those games were NOT PROFITABLE. The IOC, etc, SAYS they were by:

    Completely discounting Policing/Security Not including any venue construction costs And a whole bunch more sleeze (not) accounting (multi Billion$, for a winter, seen 10x higher for some summer bills)

    Their idiotic “profitable” rhetoric is spuriously true, if you do some bullshit accounting, whereby the ticket revenues exceed the labour bill, on-site (and never mind they conned legions of “workers” into scabbing for “room+board volunteers” which was actually a cot and hotdogs in moldy leaking freight containers)

    Multi billion $ hole, that we the people pay debt servicing on eternally, and our city became a haven for international money laundering after, one of the most unaffordable places in the world now…