• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Still holds up. If you told Americans they could have healthcare forever but they’d have to give up football for 1 year, they’d riot. The NFL alone generates like $40 billion in revenue, add college, and all other football tiers, merchandise, etc. It’s gotta be a hundreds of billions dollar industry

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      9 hours ago

      I read a study a long-ass time ago on people living in near-starvation conditions and it was discovered that people set aside some resources (not necessarily in the consciously budgeting sense, but in the actual usage sense) for recreation even in incredibly desperate circumstances.

      Human beings are funny creatures.