Is this a trick question?
Way OVER PAID!
Fortunately, they don’t see a dime of my money.
Yep !
The writer cherry picks a few athletes pay and compares it to average doctors pay. It is statistical fraud. My guess is if we average all athletic salary including all sports and all paid participants the average would be lower than doctors.
Doctors, nurses and teachers do MUCH more than athletes could ever hope to, but the issue there is that hundreds of thousands of people will never pay money to watch a group of nurses tend to the sick week after week, will never buy a jersey or hat with their favorite doctor pasted on it, and you’ll never see a cable company pay Billions for the rights to broadcast teachers taking children through phonics for the next decade.
Athletes are not overpaid. It’s the market. They get paid based on revenues they bring in.
Are athletes overpaid?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Oh wait... never mind.
Take yer pick.
A. Yes! Athletes are overpaid. Way overpaid. It’s obvious.
B. No! If someone is willing to pay you $1000 per hour to throw a ball, then that’s exactly what you are worth.
C. I really want to say A. But since I believe in the free market, I’ve got to go with B.
Overpaid and dumb. I’ve heard many of them complaining about starting league play. I hope they get their wish and can’t wait for the shock when they are not paid. Produce or starve.
Overpaid and dumb. I’ve heard many of them complaining about starting league play. I hope they get their wish and can’t wait for the shock when they are not paid. Produce or starve.
Yes.
That will be the case even more since sports are canceled.
But given the last three, I would rather the players get the money than the team owners. No one went to a basketball game to see Jerry Reinsdorf or bought a pair of Air Reinsdorf shoes from Nike.
Now how many star athletes out there that people will pay to see?
Are they overpaid? I would not pay them that much but the people who do are making a great deal of money on their talent.
If people quit paying to see them their salary drops to zero.
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.
Only the market knows.
They are entertainers, they are paid for what they can bring in. Folks buy the tickets, t-shirts and beer, TV pays for the marketing opportunity, advertisers pay for the marketing, that is the market at work.
Blame the owners.
Athletes are like Corporate CEOs. You pay an athlete based on what he delivers to your team. Can someone else cause the change in events that he can? If so, fire your guy and hire the new guy. CEOs just the same. But this incessant whining about overpaying a person is ridiculous. If the writer could deliver similar results he/she wouldn’t be a muckraking writer!
“Athletes are extremely overpaid, considering that their careers do not, arguably, contribute to society in a meaningful way.”
That is the Soviet or Maoist viewpoint. In America, they are paid that much because of the amount of money they generate for the team owner. The team owner makes even more.
All of these owners could hire someone for much less easily. They DON’T because they know how much more these athletes will generate FOR them.
But cool agitprop.
They aren’t “paid”. They negotiate a fraction of the sales revenue they help generate.
I’d reply “Is the pope catholic?” but I really don’t believe he is so going to the backup of “Does a bear shit in the woods?”. The answer is obvious.