Is there any other "sport" so perfectly encapsulating everything shitty about capitalism? It's got everything:
- Extremely large amounts of nature converted to courses made out of non-indigenous plants that waste water and labor keeping the grass at a constant height
- Course are owned by tax-dodging private social clubs with hefty membership costs
- New members have to be approved by the existing membership, so undesirable (read: non-WASP) members of the community can be rejected even if they can meet the economic costs
- Special discount rates offered for family of current members, ensuring generational wealth and privilege is maintained
- Most of the workforce is made up of undocumented laborers from Central America who do manual labor in exchange for shitty wages
- Middle school-age children are employed as off-the-books pack animals so the players don't accidentally do any amount of manual labor
- Players also have the option of driving little cars (with no safety mechanisms at all) so they don't accidentally get exercise
- A whole match takes four fucking hours to complete, requiring substantial free time on top of the sunk costs in fees and equipment
Climate destruction, resource waste, tax-dodges, racism, nepotism, illegal and child labor, and extremely high artificial costs for a leisure activity: I can't think of a single more appropriate avatar for capitalism. Well, maybe if there were slaves.
lol lots of golf stanning communists on chapo.chat
Golf is all of the things you said except you totally ignored the existence of public courses. Public. Which I guess gives chapo users the impression it's like...for the people? Like public transportation, public school?
Golf courses rank among the worst sins of the property owning class. I don't care if some business owner did figure out they could maximize their profit by letting anyone play.
There are some actual municipal courses. But these are just backdoor sneaky boons to the property owning class. Torrey Pines, a true municipal course....in ultra rich, ultra white La Jolla. Where's all the municipal courses in neighborhoods with shit property values?
Sorry but park space is for everybody. That should be a law. You shouldn't get to drive golf balls into fields families could be picnicking in. Learn to throw a frisbee.
So called "public" courses, which are actually private businesses but "open to the public" for a fee. Meaning you don't have to be a member of the country club to use it. That's what "public course" means in golf.
Who are these Chatters trying to say that public courses make golf good? I'll fight 'em.
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Yeah I'm pretty surprised to see the support here. Like hitting a ball with a club is fun and some places aren't total hellholes but you can have those things without mowing down a forest preserve lol.
golf is everything wrong with landlording distilled into a sauce. In fact, I'm just gonna say that they're in the real estate business, not in some separate category. Their business is holding property, and boosting the value of property. That's. It.
Any sufficiently bougie neighborhood just comes with a golf course? Puh-lease, that has nothing to do with fun
Golf can still exist in our socialist utopia like theme parks can still exist. There don't need to be several per county because hoarding land will also be gone.