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Poll Question: is it madness or reasonable that soccer players is worth 1 billion £
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Points: 11420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2012 at 04:32
Although I do baulk at some of the astronomical figures that are being earned in say, the EPL you really need to ask yourselves this question:

How many people would pay to see any of you do your job?

This massive disparity in earnings gives rise to an interesting question: are the salaries of top footie players indicative of the sort of divisive chasms that a genuinely free market would engender unhindered by governmental controls?

I can't help but imagine the future being three quarter empty stadiums (the traditional working class fan can't afford to attend) and the player's wages paid for entirely by TV money and merchandising/image rights. There would be at most 40 professional clubs competing against each other with the remainder consigned to regional amateur/semi pro competitions.


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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2012 at 05:13
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

How many people would pay to see any of you do your job?
Strange as it may seem - people (my customers) do ask and I politely turn them down because there is nothing to see and it's inconvenient to have someone watching over my shoulder while I work - lab work is not a spectator sport. In the past I have "allowed" some to observe and I have charged them for my time, invariably they discover how arse-numbingly boring it is and they start to wander around the lab looking at other things, which distracts me from the task in hand as I have to usher them away from sensitive jobs that are nothing to do with them or spend time describing various bits of equipment that have nothing to do with their projects. There is also the discomfort factor of having to offer corporate entertainment at lunchtime and in the evenings because that is the industry norm - frankly ferrying customers around the countryside on sight-seeing trips after work isn't in my job description (I had one guy who wanted me to take him to see Stonehenge in the evening, another wanted to see where "Midsommer Murders" was filmed...) ... and that's before we have to spend time in a pub or restaurant exchanging small-talk on subjects that i have no interest in (since it is ill-mannered to talk shop all evening).
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Points: 24572 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2012 at 08:59
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Madness. I cannot understand why such amounts of money can be spent on a few spoiled, usually uneducated brats who have a talent to handle (or should I say footle) a ball. But money rules and sport is big business, whether we like it or not.
 
Fortunately, I care little for money and even less for football.
 
So you think it would be reasonable to give money to intellectuals of an elite like you?

They help other people make money, including people not directly related to the teams they play for. There is a reason why club owners decide to pay those huge amounts. I'm sure it is not for a desire to burn money. 

Now if you really want to complain about high-paid people, put artists, celebrities, actors and musicians in there too. Many of the musicians you probably adore are spoiled, uneducated brats who have a talent to handle thousands of worshippers. Just like football players. But at least in the second case the results are easier to objectively measure. 
 

I consider myself neither an intellectual (I don't have an academical degree) nor an elite. Yet I always feel triggered to utter myself in such a way when football is involved. And I don't think that it is more reasonable to give astronomical amounts of money to any individual either.

You're obviously right. This is often the case with industry.

I don't complain about high-paid people and I don't grudge them their money. If my neighbour wins a € 27M jackpot from the postal code raffle, a madness even worse than football cult, I'll smile and congratulate him (after having studied the facial expressions of my beloved wife when she has been informed about the winning postal code LOL) instead of being jealous because I don't participate.

Saddled with a Christian faith, an advancing age (52 and counting) and 39 years of listening to prog, the stage of worshipping and/or adoring musicians (spoiled and uneducated or not) lies far behind me. I can't remember I ever did, although I'm sure I've been subject to fanboyism. But I still like their music...

All too true Embarrassed.



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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2012 at 11:20
^I like the reply-by-color style Tongue

Thanks for clarifying. 
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