Global unanimity: 100 % of voters believe elite sport has become too much of a business. Not one dissenting vote, not a trace of hesitation.
The agreement cuts across everything: men, women and voters with no declared gender all sit at 100 % yes, and every age bracket represented, from 18-24 to over-65, lands on the same verdict. It is the rarest kind of result on the platform: a consensus that depends on no profile at all.
The debate is considerably less unanimous than the vote. The most endorsed arguments target football and international competitions: widening inequality between rich and poor clubs and nations, competitions designed first for profitability, and the example of cooling breaks in air-conditioned stadiums, read as advertising time sold at the expense of the game.
One voice puts the general feeling bluntly: clubs have become brands, players products, and the supporter a walking wallet. That is the dominant register of the thread, the register of dispossession.
But the one thread that genuinely argued pushes back on that story. A reply points out that money has always been there, and that what is new is athletes finally getting a share instead of being exploited. Another asks the most uncomfortable question: has sport changed, or have we idealised the past, now that we can see backstage?
The gap is the interesting part: the vote is unanimous, the reasoning is not. The pushback is not about the presence of money, which nobody denies, but about what to conclude from it: the corruption of an ideal, or simply the end of a nostalgia.