What burns is that even as handouts this is inefficient. Sounds like it would be better to send a plane from Las Vegas when someone from Ely wants to fly.
But there’s no money in that for the carrier. Great Lakes should be put out of business for operating this way. It’s just stealing from the taxpayer!
I see what you mean. It’s the epitomy of the “culture” of “me too”, for the sake of pure exhibitionism or “getting a job”, the potemkin system of building streets for nothing during FDR’s envious depression and what not.
Some are part of Temples which care for arts, others see in this an opportunity to not only pay lip service so they can have on their resume “an accomplishment”, but, jealous, they use the position to destroy others - who would be more effective otherwise.
In other words, the ineffective wants to destroy the effective, rises to cult leader of otherwise legitimate cults and then destroy it all from their position because they are frustrated they cannot do it, because, all along, they were propped by people, helpers and artifices that bore no resemblance to the right way to get there.
It’s a strange “Jersey Shores” like behavior of imitation and usurpation of the high and the real industry.