Arts and sports are both crucial business greatly influencing the audience. But if given limited governmental funds, I believe the athletics takes priority over the arts.

To begin with, investing on sports is more dependable and efficient. That is, given the same amount of money, athletics is more likely and quickly to generate rewards. Arts depends on talents while sports on endeavors. It’s naive to expect a secured and quick return from investing arts. However, sports is objective-orientated and its probability of success has direct proportion with the efforts made, thus is more reliable. Take my college for example. They allot equal money on sports and arts but their performances are wildly divergent. Although both events are flourishing, the athletics’ awards are five times greater than those of arts.

Secondly, athletics has a bigger demand for funds. The thrive of sports business largely depends on resources like clothes, foods, coaches, incentives, etc. The quality and abundance of such resources are crucial to the development of athletics. Bad provision, inferior teachers can discourage athletics, debase their capacities and potentials. On the other hand, the demand of arts seems not that huge. History never tells lies. There are several celebrated artists, such as Van Gogh, who struggled in poverty during their lifetime but made remarkable achievements. But this is not the case with athletics at all. They would be either fully equipped or quickly eliminated.

People would say arts is the permanent treasure of human intelligence and can cultivate the ability to appreciate the world, which I never negate. But the problem is whether vast investment to arts is worthwhile given the circumstances. Our country encounters a critical phase where more reputation is needed but less money should be spent. For now, government should choose the most efficient and dependable area like athletics. After that, the focus can be gradually shifted to the long-term area such as arts.

In a nutshell, considering the high return ratio, great demand of athletics and current national situation, it is better to allocate more financial support on sports other than arts.