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Re: Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

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Post by itake »

a2tech wrote: post #14

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.

> Olympic athletes are stunningly focused achievers—I’d love to see that energy and drive applied to something that mattered.

Some of their focus comes from just being naturally talented at their activity. I am really focused on coding, b/c I have a natural affinity to working with computers, but that doesn't mean I can focus on gymnastics.

Re: Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

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Post by reshlo »

yallpendantools wrote: post #67
themaninthedark wrote: post #42

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I would like to provide liveable wages for both artists and athletes. Who gets to choose which artists and athletes are funded? When do we start funding them? In high-school, before? After they graduate? There are many people who identify as athletes at that age, football players, cheerleaders. I have a 6yo son who is really good at doing various crafts and he really enjoys it, does he count as an artist? How do we d…

First of all, funding arts/sports != livable wages for the artists/atheletes. There's an overlap but wage is just at the tip of the iceberg of funding. Provide livable wages to athletes and artists who represent your country (i.e., Olympians and national performers/artists). Fund development programs from as early as possible; this means grassroots efforts like summer camps, higher-level contests/tournaments, providi…

> national performers/artists

Who is in this group?

Re: Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

RonaldDump wrote: post #61
dustyventure wrote: post #25

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I think the Olympics in particular are mostly supposed to be a less violent outlet for nationalism, but I think we learned from the Anger Management craze that safe outlets lead to a normalization and more of the original problem.

It's an absolutely awful outlet for "nationalism" in a post-national diversified world. Table tennis, for example, is basically a bunch of Chinese people battling it out for gold for their host country. Am I supposed to root for the Chinese-Australians as if they're any more representative of me than the Chinese-Canadians?

> Am I supposed to root for the Chinese-Australians as if they're any more representative of me than the Chinese-Canadians?

It's particularly damning that you picked two countries with almost entirely modern colonial populations.

Re: Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

grecy wrote: post #71
nothercastle wrote: post #17

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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…

> Americans have a knack for coming up with the most convoluted ways of accessing healthcare

Medical tourism is alive and well even within Europe [1]. And an entire genre of concierge medicine in America caters to rich Europeans (alongside rich Middle Easterners and Asians).

[1] https://www.magazine.medicaltourism.com/article/visegrad-cou...

Re: Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

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Post by popcalc »

dialup_sounds wrote: post #68

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…

More sound than half the comments in this thread.

Re: Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

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Post by popcalc »

qingcharles wrote: post #92

Even with their existing fan base (which might or might not be interested in seeing them less clothed), OnlyFans is not a sustainable income model for most creators: https://social-rise.com/blog/average-onlyfans-income

Statistically most accounts are people signing up, trying it for a couple days half-heartedly, and giving up. You can be morbidly obese, deformed, and geriatric and rake in multiple six figures /year within months if you're going in with an actual agency.

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Post by Boldened15 »

AngryData wrote: post #90
rawcal wrote: post #41

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Wasn't "people with really intense hobbies" how modern olympics started though, going as far as banning professionals in early days?

Yes it was originally, but now you gotta have the money and time to pursue that sport at a professional level if you want to have any chance of even getting into the Olympics. 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.

Hmm I've never thought of any Olympic victory as being attributed in part to like, the current President, and I'd be surprised if anyone thought that would be the case. But it's not dubious that Americans (including myself) love to see our country winning things, and if we suddenly started tanking at the Olympics most of us would want our country to get our act together.

Of all the things the state does having national pride in competition does not seem nefarious to me. I also love it when we win the various math/science olympiads. Means our country is still a powerhouse across the board.

Re: Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)

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Post by Boldened15 »

vishnugupta wrote: post #63
PapstJL4U wrote: post #44

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Financially RoI? probably, but there is more to life and sport allows you to do this.

Absolutely but you can enjoy playing a sport without making it your primary way to make a living is the point being made.

I would imagine people operating at an Olympic level are training and breathing the sport so much it's hard to have a normal career on top that isn't also related to the sport.
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