The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

youre turning into the stephen voicebox hawking of adland commentary dodds. so now you can use your vast fucking brain to work out if thats a compliment or not.

and wheres your “no impact on long term consumption” statement coming from. and what are you calling an event? something that reappears somewhere else in a few years or a singular unveiling of some bollocks or other like the millennium bullshit?

whatever, think youre making sweeping planner generalisations there because judging by the facilities of the indian commonwealth games, it only cost them $5 to build and that will attract fuckers for years to see how shit it was.

I wasn’t being entirely rigorous but I meant events ranging from “city of culture” years to Olympic games and by consumption i meant continued economic activity be that on a geograpohical basis.

I accept that some (not many) may be shown to have a positive effect but that’s really not enough proof as opportunity cost never features in those calculations – the positive effect has to be greater than would have occurred anyway for it to be worthwhile.

I suppose you can argue that cities of culture win access to european funds, but that’s not without a contribution from the host nation in that annual budget and subsequent ones where other countries win.

Lauren’s right about infrastructure – that’s where the big benefits come, but I’m not convinced that Korea year and similar initiatives necessarily involve infrastructure investment and I’m certain that London could have been redeveloped without the Olympics – it just made the laws easier to pass.