Posted on 05/12/2020 8:33:08 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Cristiano Ronaldo. LeBron James. Lionel Messi. These are a few examples of athletes that make close to 40 million dollars a year. Athletes are extremely overpaid, considering that their careers do not, arguably, contribute to society in a meaningful way. This opinion is shared by 59% of the population, according to a Zeitgeist survey.
The average annual salary for a doctor is around $188,000, while the average salary for an NBA player is around $5 million. Similarly, firefighters only make around $46,000 a year, while MLB players make about $4 million a year. Doctors obtain high levels of education and save peoples lives, and firefighters risk their own lives on a daily basis, yet neither make half of what athletes make to play a sport on TV.
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Don't begrudge or envy a man's talents or pay. Realize there is always someone that has more money than you, but you can be a better person than him, because that is free.
Athletes should be forced to live by the politics they support. If a team has a salary cap of 54 million dollars, and 54 players on the roster, all should get the same pay. They seem to be all for socialism, well live it brah.
Bingo! The "money quote" of this thread!
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Not soon ! Its over. No fans - no big $
There are a lot of things I don't particularly like, but I know if we try to use the government to stop it, it will be worse than it is now.
Without a question.
NBA minimum pay ain’t exactly chopped liver.
“Listed below are 2019/20s minimum salary figures, sorted by years of NBA experience. If a player spent any time on an NBA clubs active regular season roster in a given season, he earned one year of experience. So any player with zero years of experience has not yet made his NBA debut.”
Years of Experience Salary
0- $898,310
1- $1,445,697
2- $1,620,564
3- $1,678,854
4- $1,737,145
5- $1,882,867
6- $2,028,594
7- $2,174,318
8- $2,320,044
9- $2,331,593
10+ $2,564,753
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2019/06/nba-minimum-salaries-for-201920.html
So a new player with not even one game under his belt is guaranteed to make $898,310 as long as he is on the roster forONE game.
Pretty cushy.
The base pay for a drafted NFL rookie is $325,000 as long as he is on the team opening day.
The MLB minimum pay is $555,000.
Pretty cushy for a pine rider on the big team.
For guys stuck in the minors, not so much.
“According to The Athletic, the average salary for a minor league baseball player was $6,000 in Single-A, $9,350 in Double-A and $15,000 in Triple-A in 2018.”
https://fanbuzz.com/mlb/minor-league-baseball-salary/
Athletes are paid big money to keep people in front of the tube to watch the commercials. Frankly—if the Gorilla Channel would lock the viewers in...gorillas would be paid in buckets of bananas. Its all about selling soap.
That’s only one sport.
No. There are plenty of useful idiots that willingly hand over their money to pay them.
JoMa
Is the Pope Catholic?
They are about to find out just how non-essential and overpaid they are.
This "overpaid" talk is straight out of the socialists' handbook.
If you buy anything that’s advertised on sports broadcasts, they’re seeing a lot more than a dime of your money.
You get paid whatever the highest bidder thinks you are worth.
The day somebody PAYS to watch a teacher teach, or a doctor lance a boil, or any other person do their job, we can talk about how these other people are underpaid.
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That day has arrived. Ever watch Doctor Pimple Popper?
Lol! Nyet. No Thanks! But I suppose such a doctor is being paid for the entertainment value and not the results.
Did you read the rest?
The NFL and MLB have lower minimums but they also carry more players on their rosters.
The base pay for a drafted NFL rookie is $325,000 as long as he is on the team opening day.
The MLB minimum pay is $555,000.
Pretty cushy for a pine rider on the big team.
For guys stuck in the minors, not so much.
According to The Athletic, the average salary for a minor league baseball player was $6,000 in Single-A, $9,350 in Double-A and $15,000 in Triple-A in 2018.
Define overpaid.
The team owners and leagues make billions in TV rights, and all of the other revenue streams. Are they over paid?
We are a country of 330 million. There are how many NBA players? 500? Seems to me they should get every nickel they can.
Stories like thiscomparing different jobs and their pay is an exercise in jealousy. Throughout this whole COVID thing we keep seeing examples of the use of statistics to make a point. The point they make is that Americans dont know how to read statistics.
The other point is that many Americans are mired in jealousy and greed. They want what LeBron has, but they are not interested in doing what LeBron has to do to earn it.
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