[elkfersupper]

It’s a PROFITABLE business (the league regularly makes more money than the domestic box office of the ENTIRE movie industry), and in the end that is what they pay CEOs for.

Bread and circuses. Just like in the old Roman Empire.

[discostu]

Everybody’s got an entertainment industry, even dirt poor countries. Which means every place and every time is is “just like the Roman Empire” which shows exactly how useful and interesting the “bread and circuses” declaration is.