The distortions of economy are obvious in this. $3 billion for a circus act, I mean it does get broadcast on TV worldwide. Still, just a bunch of boys playing. So many poor, homeless, living in the dirt. Some of them making shoes for these “playas” for their room, board and bread.
It shows how much they don't trust the stock market, real estate, crypto, fiat currency, and money markets.
**The distortions of economy are obvious in this. $3 billion for a circus act,**
Exactly, I enjoyed playing sports as a teen, but by age 7 had driven farm tractors unsupervised, and in pre-teen years had become the ‘autopilot’ as Dad would catnap on deadhead legs (no passengers) of air charter trips in a twin Cessna. At 13 built my first mini-bike (the welds were embarrassingly ugly), but the second one at 15 was much better.
I watched my sons do well in hs football. I tried to encourage them to learn craftsmen skills, even built a 14’ tall x 39’ long steel T-Rex skeleton. But the (WAY overhyped) glamor of sports was what they followed. But they managed to find non sport careers in the post school years.
I rode a bull in a rodeo... once. It was a very short ride. 18 and stupid. Dad warned, “Bull riding is gladiator stuff. It’s got absolutely nothing to do with ranching or horsemanship.” He was right, and though passed on, his words are still true.
But people pay to be entertained.
Just to make lemonade here: thanks to these playas there’s a market FOR the shoes that thus creates work leading to room, board and bread?