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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 10:47 pm to TheWalrus
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Why should your entertainment be subsidized?
Most pro sports teams are subsidized by the government or at least their most valuable asset often is.
In the US, pro sports leagues are in violation of the Sherman Act, so I don’t think backing them is supporting a free market. That said the players may actually make more with multiple leagues per sport or open competition.
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 10:50 pm to boosiebadazz
quote:Owners don’t always make that money though… they can gain it or lose it
really don’t want to see what the owners are making
Posted on 6/16/21 at 10:51 pm to OweO
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Pro sports is the perfect model for capitalism IMO.
What? How is a bunch of businesses (teams) colluding and engaging in anticompetitive practices the perfect model for capitalism?
The European soccer model is a much better model for capitalism.
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 10:53 pm to chalmetteowl
quote:LMAO
Owners don’t always make that money though…
Posted on 6/16/21 at 11:02 pm to rebel cat
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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 6/16/21 at 11:33 pm to castorinho
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What are you, a communist?
ironically enough, american sports are to socialism what euro sports are to capitalism
Posted on 6/16/21 at 11:41 pm to TomRollTideRitter
Seriously. MLB has an anti trust exemption. Those filled stadiums are largely built with public money and often located in special development districts except from ordinary property and sales tax. The state of Louisiana directly subsidized the Saints operating budget with direct cash payments for years. Very little about the American sports model represents pure capitalism.
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