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Pro athletes are paid too much
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:32 pm
Anyone agree? God given talent but millions is too much. Makes everything around it monetized. Like NFL Sunday Ticket. MLB extra innings. Or just listening to a broadcast on the mlb app. If you're a true NFL junkie you can spend thousands of dollars on sports a year.
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Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:33 pm to rebel cat
Nope
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:34 pm to rebel cat
They are paid what someone is will to pay
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:34 pm to rebel cat
What are you, a communist?
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:34 pm to rebel cat
Why should your entertainment be subsidized?
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:35 pm to rebel cat
Too much based on what?
They capitalize on mass media and economies of scale from the TV money then agree to split it with the owners.
If you think athletes make too much, you really don’t want to see what the owners are making
They capitalize on mass media and economies of scale from the TV money then agree to split it with the owners.
If you think athletes make too much, you really don’t want to see what the owners are making
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:35 pm to rebel cat
Not every pro athlete is a star athlete and the stars are the only ones that make the true bucks. And they're paid that much because consumers make the demand that high. If no on watched then they'd make WNBA salary.
As it stands, the demand and supply dictates that they should in fact make this much with the revenue sharing agreement with the pro leagues.
As it stands, the demand and supply dictates that they should in fact make this much with the revenue sharing agreement with the pro leagues.
This post was edited on 6/16/21 at 10:37 pm
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:37 pm to rebel cat
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Pro athletes are paid too much
How un-American of you. You are worth what someone is willing to pay. And as long as sports brings in billions of dollars per year, than the main labor force will be paid accordingly.
If the consumers stop supporting sports, than the pay will reflect that as well.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:40 pm to rebel cat
Where is all the money going to go. Every week, there are probably 1 million fans in stadium seats across the nation (this season being an anomaly). The NFL is a multi-billion dollar industry. If you start paying the players a lot less, someone else is going to have to pocket the money.
Either way it goes, someone is getting filthy rich.
Either way it goes, someone is getting filthy rich.
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:43 pm to rebel cat
We still live in a capitalist country right? Pro sports is the perfect model for capitalism IMO.
So you would rather see the owners keep more money and not pay players their value?
You expect everyone who generates money off of sports (gambling, sports bars, sports shows, writers, etc, etc) to look at their job as more of a hobby than a business?
So you would rather see the owners keep more money and not pay players their value?
You expect everyone who generates money off of sports (gambling, sports bars, sports shows, writers, etc, etc) to look at their job as more of a hobby than a business?
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:48 pm to rebel cat
They are paid too much, but it's a free country so
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:52 pm to rebel cat
Free market. Should get paid whatever people are willing to pay them
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:53 pm to rebel cat
WNBA players are overpaid
Posted on 6/16/21 at 11:02 pm to rebel cat
quote:
If you're a true NFL junkie you can spend thousands of dollars on sports a year.
frick Goodell and the NFL I ain’t spending shite on them.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 12:35 am to rebel cat
They get paid a lot of money because they spend a lot of money.
~Patrick Ewing
~Patrick Ewing
Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:09 am to rebel cat
Agreed
And there a bunch of ungreatful basterds
And there a bunch of ungreatful basterds
Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:13 am to rebel cat
It’s supply and demand.
But I do think it shows how screwed up our priorities are in America that an NFL minimum salary is ten times that of a teacher, firemen or police officer.
But hey, capitalism.
But I do think it shows how screwed up our priorities are in America that an NFL minimum salary is ten times that of a teacher, firemen or police officer.
But hey, capitalism.
Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:30 am to rebel cat
Obviously on its face yes it looks ridiculous, but they get about half of total revenue and the majority of players arent getting crazy contracts.
If a movie makes 200 million shouldnt the actors get a decent cut of that?
If a movie makes 200 million shouldnt the actors get a decent cut of that?
Posted on 6/17/21 at 5:41 am to rebel cat
Quit hating with your unathletic arse
Posted on 6/17/21 at 6:41 am to rebel cat
their salaries are literally based on revenue sharing percentages
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