Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Inside the Commonwealth Games Scandal that Shamed India | The Big Steal" video.

  1. There is no other purpose for big events like worldwide sports events in developing nations other than corruption schemes and stealing money from public coffers in exchange for some short lived circus. All developing nations that had the "gift" and "privilege" of hosting world sports events such as the World Cup, Olympics and whatnot ended up worse for it, period. In democracies, all encompassing corruption scandals came right after, the amount of money spent on it always went several times overbudget, and sometimes the government falls over only to be replaced by yet another collection of corrupt politicians and staff. It always seems to be a mini-revolution for the worse. In non functional democracies the scandals don't come to light, but the effects are still felt throughout the population. It's just bread and circus. A huge amount of positivity for the event, influx of tourist focused only around the games, news reports with overflowing "people are nice" messages, and then an empty vacuum afterwards exposing some of the worst things the country has. Corruption, visible poverty, "nice" infrastructure built for the event left to rot because the country has no use for it, all plans for the betterment of the country itself discarded or in a total state of disrepair, people who got temporary jobs and opened businesses around the event going back into poverty, a class of politicians who suddenly started buying land, property, accounts in fiscal paradises when not directly rubbing off their newfound riches at the faces of people... and the cycle repeats over and over again.
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