Olympics

In which Rat expects it to be different this time

Good time of Friday, humans!

Transcript:

Human: — No one really knows how much the next Olympic Games will cost.
Human: — Perhaps the only thing we can be sure about is that a lot of money will be squandered as usual.
Rat: — Why «as usual»? It will be squandered faster, higher and stronger!

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Skeptics say there’s no way 2004 Athens games could cause 2010 Greek financial crisis because the scale of the latter was much too bigger. Moi, I believe the effect was most likely indirect — when governments are spending a lot on «infrastructure», it soon becomes nigh impossible for the private sector to build anything at a reasonable cost.

Anyway, there’s no doubt there was a lot of waste.