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The wild part is how much everyone makes around the Olympics besides the athletes.
* Music, musicians
* Publishing/journals, academics
* (and more that I can't think of right now)
Turns out the real alienation is the artists and athletes, not the workers producing luxury goods. Capitalism is great, it feeds billions, but it shouldn’t be lost on anyone that we can provide generational wealth to anyone who can produce beans a bit better, while the transcendental has pitiful returns. On one hand, we need beans. On the other, it sure is nice to transcend from time to time. Over all I think it’s wi…
Tossing a coin to your Witcher is not sufficient to fix our broken capitalism system.
When the Greeks invented the games the competitors were all buck naked and oiled up. You ever think we should just cut out the middlemen? Skip the governments, the international organizations, the television networks, and get back to the basic principle of fit naked people doing fit naked things in front of an admiring audience. At Strigil (YC '25) we're disrupting the Olympic market by combining best-of-breed athlet…
The wild part is how much everyone makes around the Olympics besides the athletes.
I think you can s//g that in various ways, and it would be true: * Music, musicians * Publishing/journals, academics * (and more that I can't think of right now)
* Pharma companies, US taxpayers funding basic research
* Waltons, Walmart employees
The list is endless.
This is the reality of building your life around sport—-there’s basically no money in it unless you’re on the extreme edge. I wish people would stop dumping their entire life’s energy into chasing it—-do something more useful like stamping parts out in a factory. Olympic athletes are stunningly focused achievers—I’d love to see that energy and drive applied to something that mattered.
These are Olympic athletes, they are on the extreme edge.
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If you have a non emergency procedure and you are short of cash it seems like medical tourism would be a better choice
It seems like Americans have a knack for coming up with the most convoluted ways of accessing healthcare that are still expensive and inconvenient. Your idea still require paying out of pocket, requires taking unpaid time off work, flights, relying on the healthcare system of a foreign country and more. That is the worst possible "healthcare" situation I can imagine. Dozens of countries have shown you pay a lot less…
When the Greeks invented the games the competitors were all buck naked and oiled up. You ever think we should just cut out the middlemen? Skip the governments, the international organizations, the television networks, and get back to the basic principle of fit naked people doing fit naked things in front of an admiring audience. At Strigil (YC '25) we're disrupting the Olympic market by combining best-of-breed athlet…
It really is a no brainer when you consider the investment they have to make in their bodies.
This is the reality of building your life around sport—-there’s basically no money in it unless you’re on the extreme edge. I wish people would stop dumping their entire life’s energy into chasing it—-do something more useful like stamping parts out in a factory. Olympic athletes are stunningly focused achievers—I’d love to see that energy and drive applied to something that mattered.
Olympians being "people with really intense hobbies" is still weird to me. I haven't reconciled in my mind that the life of AA baseball players getting paid a little more than minimum wage plus a meal stipend is a dream for 90% of Olympians who, if they win, become national symbols of excellence for a week every 4 years.
Wasn't "people with really intense hobbies" how modern olympics started though, going as far as banning professionals in early days?
Personally I think it would be better if it was just regular joes doing the Olympics again, but state political interests kept dipping their hand into the pool to try and secure wins for some dubious political points.