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6/10/2013 12:27:07 AM
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Why do most people here think pro athletes are overpaid?
-While yes they do get paid more than the average working man their careers are shorter and a lot more dangerous.
-The sport industry generate billions of dollars, and athletes are the grunt workers that make the industry tick and if you take a step back and look the athletes are only getting a small fraction of the overall earnings.
-It's also a very selective position. Less than 1% of all highschool athletes will every make money playing the sport.
So yes, In my opinion athletes deserve more money than doctors. Supply and Demand.
Are you one of the people who don't understand basic economics?
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1 AntwortenBearbeitet von AcedannyK: 6/16/2013 7:25:39 PMFlood, you disappoint me falling for bait like this.
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-Who cares if their careers are dangerous? They don't do anything productive when they put themselves in danger. Firefighters, troops, and police officers have dangerous careers too, but they actually help the world. -The healthcare industry generates billions of dollars, and the doctors are the grunt workers that make the industry tick. I don't see them making multiple millions per year. - So? Who cares? I understand supply and demand and why they make more money, but that doesn't mean they [i]deserve[/i] it.
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1 AntwortenBearbeitet von aBallisticToucan: 6/10/2013 5:25:23 AM7.5/10 for effort. 9/10 for replies. Exceptionally well-rounded work. You went with a simple yet effective topic, put in a believable text post, and added in some bells and whistles (the 1% statistic, the doctors comment) for it to really go the extra mile. Given your "sports are the superior passtime" implication, my suggestion would be to add in something like "plus athletes don't waste their time playing Halo," or some other slander of the average bnetters to really add extra potency. Overall, very decent work.
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I have a question for anyone who thinks athletes are over-paid: Have you yourself ever played a competitive sport?
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6 Antworteni would submit to you the differences in pay between the CFL and NFL. They pay the same game yet the pay is much less from what i understand.Why is this?Is the sports less important in Canada or do the athletes take smaller pay checks by choice?
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[quote]the athletes are only getting a small fraction of the overall earnings. [/quote]You mean, similar to every other business? I agree with most of the other points though.
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Bearbeitet von edableshoe: 6/16/2013 7:06:24 PMI mean, I guess people like to put specific occupations in a sort of tier system. In a society, the civilization has to reach a comfortable level of self-sustainability. It starts with a new civilization, they need the hunters and gatherers. Then it becomes farmers, followed by leaders. Soon farmers take in effect, and at this point we see the distribution of foods becoming more accessible for all members. Once foods and housing become easily accessible, then members of the society can start to make new occupations. This means the leaders will want to spread control, there will be the need for teachers to help with education. Inventors will come up to create commodities to help make life easier, doctors will want to help lower infant mortality. Artist will seek to inspire others with their creations, so writing will become common, music will start to take a hold of the society's pleasures. One of the last things to come into place is the creation of a medium of pure entertainment. These generally start off as celebrations of both human intellect and physical prowess. You see competitions for archery or marksmanship. Swordsmanship, and the muscular ability of the strongest start to appear. This is all in celebration of mankind's physical power. But then we see the creation of sports. They start off as a way for individuals to enjoy themselves personally, but as time goes by, and specific members show a greater ability in these sports, others start to enjoy watching them play at such a higher level than the average human could ever perform. But notice something. These sports are only possible after ALL OTHER MEMBERS have taken the steps to create a solid and functional society. Athletes are respectable and admired, but they are only important for the pure entertainment of others. They are the gladiators that bend to our will, they "fight to the death" only for our enjoyment. It takes all other humans having done the greatest feats of creation in order to make space for athletes. And I believe that people are confused as to why athletes are paid so much more for something that has no real contribution to humanity. They only offer the entertainment of others, that's it.
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1 AntwortenI'm starting to like this guy. I really am.
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1 AntwortenI don't agree that running back and forth on a field or court all day deserves being paid millions upon millions for what they do, despite those safety issues you bring up during play, they're already improving safety gear time and time again making it less damage, but even then, once most of the players of football for example finish their career, their heads and bodies will be so messed up it would be impossible for them to go back to college or anything else when they retire at the age of 40, so it makes sense for them to get paid a lot in that way when they can't do much else afterwords besides coaching.
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i find it funny that you effectively say in your OP that anyone that disagrees does not understand basic economics, whihc seems there only to bait people into arguing with you.
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Ouch, this is trying way too hard man.
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I'd comment. But I feel uncomfortable entering a conversation dominated by Fantasy Football and Arrogant Bastard.
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13 AntwortenDoctors save lives. Athletes are entertainers. lol.
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While I agree that their pay is correct, I question our society's priorities that places such importance on such an irrelevant pastime.
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[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNReN6hMmeQ]Yeah being a pro athlete is easy guys. Im sure you all could do it[/url]
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I actually agree with you for once People who say 'soldiers and doctors should get paid more' dont know the first thing about economics. Athletes get a certain amount of what the industry makes
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I don't disagree with your opinion and I have never complained about how much people, such as athletes, are paid. If there is a large amount of demand and money avaliable to their employers that they could be paid a million an hour, I still wouldn't care. If some arab prince were to buy dominos and pay the staff thousands of dollars a week then I wouldn't care at all. But your first point is stupid though. Coal miners aren't paid nothing in comparison to top athletes yet have a much more high-risk job.
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Ohai PSU, what's up?
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4 AntwortenDoctors are saving people's lives, Athletes are kicking/throwing/hitting a ball/running around, and you say athletes deserve more pay?
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And they travel around constantly and they're away from there families. Then add to over 50k+ plus people screaming at the top of there lungs while maybe playing in rain or snow.
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35 AntwortenSo someone who save lives and people who put their life on the line for their country don't deserve more money than someone who can kick bag of air?
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[quote] Supply and Demand. [/quote] Had a good argument until you posted this.
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5 AntwortenBecause a beer and nachos shouldn't cost $16... - Der
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1 AntwortenSporting teams, as companies, don't actually make that much money compared to other industries. If you look at Manchester United, their revenue is $530m a year - yet they pay a single employee $387,500 per week. Athletes get paid a huge proportion of the revenue of their teams - very often, the wages of 30 or so players exceeds the overall income of their club, which is ridiculous. Their value as players is not at the level where they warrant the wages earned - simply because they are often not responsible for justifying their cost on the financial level. You pay people well because they help you earn money. If they are being paid £40k...£60k... up to £300k a week and are in an industry where overall revenue is decent but not ground breaking, and where wages are above overall revenue, they are, by any point of examination, being grossly overpaid
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[url=http://www.nfl.com/photoessays/0ap1000000210472/highestpaid-nfl-players-on-forbes-2013-list?campaign=Facebook_essay_forbes]Heres a list of NFL players on the forbes 2013 list.[/url]
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True. The vast amounts of sponsorship money flooding into modern sport means that the market price of sporting labour will always be ludicrously high in the right markets. However, anybody who knows the first thing about economics knows that the market outcome isn't always the socially optimal outcome.
