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Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by melling on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:33PM (#20436217)
“They are self sustaining industries.”

So, you don’t know about all the subsidies for stadiums, etc?

https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/30/news/companies/nfl-taxpayer...

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Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by AmericanChopper on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:25PM (#20436605)
People complain about stadium subsidies all the time. I’d presume the amount of people who complain about them would be somewhat proportional to the amount of people who know they exist.
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Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by omnimus on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:28PM (#20436618)
I am very much against the subsidies for sports but (being from football country) there are many secondary effects why countries support it. From better population health to higher patriotism (international matches are only time people see the flag and anthem) and even crime rate. Its good for kids to have heroes/role models and sport heroes are usually the ones kids prefer.
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Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by gdy on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:38AM (#20438860)
In the USSR the cosmonauts were heroes.
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