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

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

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Post by tsupiroti »

llamaimperative wrote: post #208
tsupiroti wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly what GDP measures: how much money people have paid and gotten paid for things.

Right... and GDP being a bad metric (for most decisions) doesn't have any relevance to the discussion. It doesn't imply anything about the thing it measures. By analogy, good engines produce power. A speedometer measures the engine's power under a set of conditions. However, a speedometer is not (by itself) a good way to measure an engine because there are other factors you care about. The fact that a speedometer is…

Rereading the previous comments, I agree you're right. Good analogy.

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

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Post by Auracle »

DrillShopper wrote: post #187
unsupp0rted wrote: post #174

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Do they? I can't name a single disc thrower, sabre-master, parallel bar gripper, judo person, or thing-shooter. Every once in a while a Turkish guy shooting with no equipment becomes a meme, or the greatest swimmer or runner in the history of the world comes onto the scene. Newsmedia goes nuts because this sells advertising. But then a southern girl in a 5-second viral video does 100x of that in notoriety, with no tr…

> Do they? Clearly they do or NBC wouldn't pay approximately eleventy quadtrillion dollars every time the contract is up to renew. NBC makes billions on the Olympics though running advertising and advertisers are willing to pay NBC's rates therefore at least enough people care for NBC to profit massively.

Except NBC barely broadcasts any sports other than swimming, gymnastics, and track and field (summer). If you’re good at one of those you’re probably good financially as well. If you’re a decent shot..putter?

Nobody particularly cares, other than other people in the sport. The only reason they might show you is if you win a medal for the US.

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Post by DontchaKnowit »

jalapenos wrote: post #204
DontchaKnowit wrote: post #154

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Yo idk what youre talki g about with fencing. Its entertaining as hell

Olympic fencing is straight up dumb - they do the equivalent of immediately charging to their deaths with a goofy flexi-"sword". If you want some real entertainment in that area watch HEMA fencing.

Its a sport not a sword fight, silly goose

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

AngryData wrote: post #79
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.

Define "something that mattered", because over half the stuff posted on hackernews is a complete waste of time and effort if your only real metric is profitability. The vast majority of "hacking" in general is of negative financial value.

Careful. Trying to detach profitability from utility and necessity, nevermind any higher level ethical or philosophical questions, may get you strung up around here.

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

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

vermilingua wrote: post #77
gregors wrote: post #76

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>>>> there’s basically no money in it Who cares there's no money in it? Lots of things that have been corrupted with money are also hardly worth pursuing.

If you’re asking the question, you clearly don’t have to worry about money. For most it’s a question of survival.

Ridiculous. Life is not about getting the most money. You can’t eat money, doesn’t matter how much you have. Someone, somewhere has to do work that makes less money for some other gain so that you can eat what you do.

By that standard if survival means that we have to return to child sacrifice or something else so heinous then I guess engaging in anything but is also privileged.

These people are pursuing the survival of their souls. If you lose that, you cannot regain it. And time is not an athlete’s friend. You can always make money. It’s not going anywhere.

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

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Post by llamaimperative »

tsupiroti wrote: post #211
llamaimperative wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right... and GDP being a bad metric (for most decisions) doesn't have any relevance to the discussion. It doesn't imply anything about the thing it measures. By analogy, good engines produce power. A speedometer measures the engine's power under a set of conditions. However, a speedometer is not (by itself) a good way to measure an engine because there are other factors you care about. The fact that a speedometer is…

Rereading the previous comments, I agree you're right. Good analogy.

Well shucks, thank you! It took me a while to come up with haha, so glad it was satisfactory :)

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Post by pxmpxm »

Y-bar wrote: post #19
TriangleEdge wrote: post #15

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> On one hand you want to provide livable wages to your athletes Why? Sports are just another form of entertainment for others. Same as any other performance artist.

I think artists should have a livable wage as well.

"Livage wage" is just euphemism for confiscating someone else's time.

The guy stamping metal parts at a factory has to work an hour more, because you want to take part of his income and hand it to someone doing his/her hobby.

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

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Post by pxmpxm »

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…

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

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Post by insane_dreamer »

eviks wrote: post #142
jalapenos wrote: post #115

System working as designed? Like, if your hobby is throwing a disc as far as you can, have fun. But don't expect many people to pay to watch right? But people pay a whole lot to see nice bodies doing sexual stuff. So since money comes from what other people value, no need for a surprised Pikachu face.

> But don't expect many people to pay to watch right? Why did you ignore the fact from the article that people do pay to watch (it's one of the most watched events in the world) it's just that that money doesn't reach the athletes? Not sure which pokemon represents that

once every four years (and that's if you're good enough to make it to multiple olympics) isn't going to pay the bills
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