re: LeBron James to co-produce HBO documentary on exploitative world of college sports

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It isn't even that they should pay them, it is that they should be allowed to make money on their likeness however they see fit because the days of amateur athletics went out the window years and years ago.

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I honestly feel like if "our side" stuck just to this argument, it would gain steam and come to fruition

But I think our logic gets lost on deaf ears because it gets drowned out by the "modern day slavery" and "denied basic rights" headlines