The Hunger Games, or wither poverty not sports

i'm going to invent a new sports team, but instead of running around a field chasing a ball, we're going to run around capitalism chasing poverty and hunger. locally, you're going to give us $150 million for a new building so we can do our work. you're going to give us 100% of the revenues generated by the building, even when other people are working there and we're not. and no, we won't let you use the building for free for any reason. and even though you paid for the building, we get to name it as we see fit by selling naming rights to a corporate partner. and year after year, our tax subsidies will let us keep doing what we do in that expensive building you paid for

every two years, you're going to give me tens of billions of dollars for my summer and winter games projects to end hunger and poverty internationally, and you're going to watch. you're going to interrupt work at your job to watch organized debates in which the important issues of today's economy are solved, focusing on the twilight of labour. televised anti-poverty campaigns are integrated into the 'normal' shows on television, and everybody talks about how good it is to end poverty and hunger. you're going to convince your governments to spend billions to improve the effectiveness of their anti-poverty activists and encourage more children to eat, and so that we can all do better next time

then i woke up and realised that we aren't doing a thing for poverty or hunger because there isn't enough money for that, but we'll do whatever it takes to make damn sure that some dudes (and sometimes a lady) get to chase a ball around a field and we get to watch