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Golf. Especially driving ranges.
On the grand scheme of things not that bad in comparison to parking and lawns
Yeah it's large and can be quite wasteful but not that bad
Eh I like to take the George Carlin approach to golf courses they're large swaths of land that take a lot of chemicals, and water to maintain by cheap labor hidden just far enough away so rich fucks can hit a tiny white ball with a metal stick into a plastic cup.
I'll agree that overall golf courses aren't the source of the problems, but they're the distillation of how our society is structured to how so many resources and exploited labor go into maintaining the wealthy's way of life.
Golf isn't really that elitist these days. There are public courses everywhere, games off hours are $20, and equipment can be had for a few hundred dollars. It's pretty middle class compared to the actual elitist sports.
I'm not saying it's totally accessible. I'm just saying it hasn't been a rich/elitists game for some 20 year now.
Exactly
I know plenty of people who golf on the weekends who make our state's minimum wage
Or hell going down to the local driving range is pretty fun as well and something I do on occasion
Not sure about the US, but here in Australia many golf courses are built on flood plains where regular development would not be permitted. Still not nearly as beneficial as native bushland would be, but not as much of a "waste of space" as many tend to believe.