Olympics

How do you justify spending $620 million on the 2010 Winter Olympic games when there are hundreds of millions of people struggling to survive in the world?

There are lots of people involved in the Olympic games, who have dedicated their lives to it, making a living off it. Holding the Olympics requires the expertise of many people and many services.

Just to mention a few, more obvious careers are the sports people, the judges, the whole sporting industry, advertising industry, media, which brings us to sports brands, clothing lines, models, entertainment, which leads us to mass communication, without which there would have never been tecchnological advancement and enhancement and lots of other industries would not exist had there not been an Olympics.

Had these industries not existed, there would be more people unemployed, not being able to make a living, and more people would suffer.

If you realise that something that looks simple and fun is in actual fact something that is essential to many people's lives. The people who put together the Olympic Games work their arses off to put it together, and the number of people who survive off it is numerous.

The money isn't just stuffed into someone's pocket and selfishly kept away from the hundreds of people who are struggling to survive.

If you look closely, the developement of the whole sporting industry was developed because of the Oympic Games. In the absence of this industry, many companies would sieze to exist.

In other words, just because so much money is spent on entertainment, doesnt mean that it is being spent unwisely because the people in these industries, would suffer, and subsequently, an even larger amount of people in every would be affected.

The Olympic Games is not a game. It is a business, just like everything else. If there were no Olympics, or the budget was cut, what would the people who are involved do? the Olympics was their life.