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I would assume that not everyone with a "great body" would want to do stripping and I don't think it is a "no brainer" at all.

Problem with many sports is that they just don't earn enough money, which mostly is in advertising, and that doing it professionally is rather costly.

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A lot of sports make quite a bit of money. The problem is the facilities costs. You're spending a lot of money on a specialized building with specialized equipment. Larger markets with more money raise costs even further by raising both athlete and audience expectations with ever more luxurious features, meaning the smaller markets with smaller audiences are compared to them. The facilities operators thus get the majority of sponsorship money as they force themselves into having the largest costs, leaving less money for other aspects like athlete pay and feeder leagues.

Some sports overcome this by forcing the team operators to also be the facilities operators, such as the NFL, but for many others like SailGP the athletes and teams are directly competing with the venues for some of the sponsorship money. And on top of that the different sports are competing with eachother for who gets what sponsorship, as some sports or sponsors have forced exclusivity contracts, such as Pepsi had with Hendrick Motorsports in NASCAR or Mastercard had with FIFA.

And sometimes the sanctioning body responsible for the sport itself is just taking in the majority of the money and leaving the actual individual costs to the venues, teams, and athletes without ever supporting them centrally. F1, FIFA, and the NCAA did that for years.

There's plenty of money, it's just that it's not being spread around appropriately. The worst part is that it doesn't even have to be evenly for the sport and athletes to thrive, just appropriately.

100% I'd strip. Putting that much toil in I'd want maximum compensation

I decided to write compilers because my initial foray into stripping flopped.

And still found a way to show the world your D.

LOL

Not everyone has such little self-worth.

Are you commenting on the GP? Because if I had any self-worth, I would 100% strip[^1].

[^1]: As it is, I still dream and go to the gym every day.

Does stripping indicate low self-worth?

Not per se, but indirectly penalizing modest people is not OK.

What exactly is penalizing modest people? Paying people to strip is penalizing „modest people“ who don’t want to strip?

Yes, any sort of prostitution does.

My man I'd get to say "back when I was a stripper". I gift myself. Drop it in my TED talk one day. That's self love

Why would you be compensated for removing the whitespace on either end of a string?

The only people who make it to Olympic level (other than for very small countries) are people with the willingness to do anything it takes. If your sport isn't your top priority in your life, your place will be taken by someone for whom it is.

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