South Tyrol, Italy, the tennis world and whoever wants it is currently basking in the success story of a young tennis player from Sexten, who is going from victory to victory. Jannik Sinner – the name says it all – actually seems to be a profound character who also uses his fame to send ethically sound messages and ask questions.
The rest of the phenomenon has many questionable and repulsive sides. Sinner’s career is the result of a clearly defined project, a targeted investment in a talent. Sinner is the valuable raw material of a tough company in which many cogs have to mesh together in order to achieve “success”, after brutal selection processes and thousands of branches in which everything always has to be right.
For a Sinner who makes it, thousands upon thousands of children are drilled and have to “function” every day, driven by committed parents, a merciless performance environment and by the greed for “success”, which these days is only expressed in money. A sign of the times and actually a questionable form of child labor, not just in sport.
It is then only logical to carry out “tax optimization” in order to increase the output for the Sinner system. The star himself becomes a cog in the optimization system in which many optimizers perform well. If the raw material does not play along in this game, the project becomes a bad investment and the machine turns to a new raw material.
“Successful” athletes are the symbol of our society, which absolutizes “performance” and is prepared to accept high social and human costs for it without questioning its usefulness.
The show must go on.
2023-11-17 09:35:59
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