eliminatedsprinter
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Posted: Sep. 28 2006,7:41 pm |
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| Quote (GlassMan @ Sep. 28 2006,5:45 pm) | | Quote (eliminatedsprinter @ Sep. 28 2006,12:42 pm) | So how much is being the among the best in the world at something that is dangerous and very difficult to do worth to you???  |
First of all, he elects to play a game.......
Base jumping is dangerous and difficult - wouldn't give you a dime for that.
Add IMPORTANT to the criteria and you've got firefighters, cops, soldiers to name a few. What are the best of that bunch worth?
How about teachers? In some schools it's pretty damn dangerous.
I agree wholeheartedly with the Tom Cruise scenario....way overpaid.
The priorities are all mixed up.  |
Oh this is going to be fun. I love non-sequitors.  ÂÂ
"He elects to play a game". So who forced you to choose your job and what would that do to (or say for) it's value if you were??
"Base jumping is difficult" and you wouldn't pay a dime for it either. Neither would I. Neither would hardly anybody. That's exactly why it's not valuable as a spectator sport. It has no spectator entertainment value. Plus most anybody who is healthy has the physical ability to do it. People with the skills to do it are a dime a dozen, all they have to do is learn how.
I like your idea about adding important to the meaning of monetary value. I'd make a lot more under your system. Water is important. Should we pay more for it??
Ever see how many qualified people apply for jobs as firemen at today's real world salaries?? There is far from a shortage of people who are capable of becoming, cops, fireman, teachers, nurses, therapists (like myself) etc... Even if there are shortages of us in some areas. The qualities and intellegence required to have the ability to do our jobs are comparatively commen. Only a handful of people have ever had the ability to do what T. O.  does as well as he has done it. It's supply and demand. His abilities are very rare and there is a large and lucretive demand for them. Football is very entertaining to huge numbers of people. That is an inescapable fact.
 I'm amazed how many people just don't understand that supply and demand is not a law that can be changed, anymore than the law of gravity can be changed. Every time I fall down I dislike gravity. But I don't go around complaining that it's wrong. Our emotions tell us it's wrong for him to make more than someone who saves lives etc. But if his skills were not valuable. .... Rare things that people want will always be valuable. It's just not logical to expect otherwise and call it wrong.
P.S. The above was a just a little fun exercise in logic.   I get your point.  I'm just teasing you a bit for seeming to care about something as silly as the salaries of ball players.  Their big income hurts no one. It is a shame that some of us who's skills have a different type of value are not as well rewarded simply, because they are not as rare. But like it or not rareity is just as big a factor of value as importance is and T O's skills are a lot more rare than ours are. To argue that it's wrong to pay him a lot is simply illogical.
Now, if you were to argue, that those of us with important skills should also make more... I'd be singing a different tune.....    ÂÂ
Edited by eliminatedsprinter on Sep. 28 2006,7:45 pm
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Of course, we are paying for him to play that game for us..... 
It was a very believeable production where they had school teachers making 6 figures and becoming free agents to negociate with school districts for their services....CLASSIC.... 
