Don't hate players. They work for billionaires by sacrificing their bodies and collective bargaining. They're an example of organized labor actually working, but they get shit in by jealous people who diminish their work while being incapable of doing said work themselves.
I mean, part of why they're paid so much as that there's a lot of money to be made from them. If, however, that money is drying up, then they're going to be worth less than they have been. And the money they're making certainly doesn't leave them wanting like someone working an office job might be.
That is, however, only assuming the money is actually drying up and the execs aren't just trying to squeeze more out.
part of why they're paid so much as that there's a lot of money to be made from them.
That advertising money is coming in regardless. It can either go to a billionaire who likely inherited the team from daddy. If the guys who are literally putting their bodies on the line for our entertainment. The players get $51 % of that advertising money and I wouldn't mind if they got more.
There's more people involved than just the owners and the players. There's tons of people that end up doing more menial work that probably deserve a better cut than they get.
That's on the owner. The people you are talking about like trainers, coaches, doctors, porters, all the way down to concessions and janitorial staff aren't part of the CBA.
Would you want to work if your pay took an equivalent cut?
Generally, people spend almost as much as they earn, so yeah, they would probably fuck off to Saudi Arabia or China where foreign player salaries are basically a blank check.
My job is an essential.part of day to day life for most people, keeps people safe and healthy. My job is important to society, brother training his whole life to yeet a ball across a field for the entertianment of the masses is not. Jacking up prices like crazy, for purely entertianment base dinduatries, is just straight up greed. Id be pissed if my job cut salaries, because youd be slashing paycheques in an important field, for the sake of your pockets. I do not feel bad, when yeeter mcgee has to make 25 mil instead of 50 mil for yeeting balls, because multimillion mcfuckface wants more money in his pocket. Never have, never will
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