Well they don’t earn that money from exploiting others but from being exploited.
Especially athletes.
They destroy their bodies and sometimes their minds too.
As for Celebrities like actors and musicians/singers. I think there is a fair bit of exploitation of them too. Especially young women and young men.
If a company wants to pay an actor 5 million to be in a movie, they are paying for the talent, the risk to the actor, and the advertising that comes with that actors name.
That honestly seems fair. I just wish the amount that producers spend on male actors wasn’t so egregiously higher than female actors.
At least these people did something real to earn that money. Showed up to sets. Long days in rough conditions. Or went on concert tours. Traveled and lived in hotels and trailers for months.
None of which qualifies as harder work than most jobs or explains how they earn many times the average person’s yearly salary for a fraction of the work.
Does a sportsball player destroy their body any more than a tradesman? How does throwing a ball equate to mining coal?
Actors aren’t being exploited any more than the average worker. Compared to, say, a local news reporter that is on television 5 days a week.
Well I’m not saying the physical work is different than other labor jobs. Or even the mental.
Just saying it IS actual honest work.
Do I think athletes should be paid 5 million for a season. ?
No. But someone thinks they do.
The reason I don’t like billionaires is because of exploitation.
They are bad people causing harm.
I don’t think that’s true about athletes and celebrities.
I don’t like such extreme income inequality either. But I’m not going to lump athletes and celebrities in with unethical exploitive sociopaths just because they are paid high amounts.
Exploitation of others is the factor here. Not anything else.
No.
Why? Why do they deserve such huge salaries? Is the work they do of that much more value than, say, a beekeeper barely scrapimg by?
Well they don’t earn that money from exploiting others but from being exploited.
Especially athletes. They destroy their bodies and sometimes their minds too.
As for Celebrities like actors and musicians/singers. I think there is a fair bit of exploitation of them too. Especially young women and young men.
If a company wants to pay an actor 5 million to be in a movie, they are paying for the talent, the risk to the actor, and the advertising that comes with that actors name.
That honestly seems fair. I just wish the amount that producers spend on male actors wasn’t so egregiously higher than female actors.
At least these people did something real to earn that money. Showed up to sets. Long days in rough conditions. Or went on concert tours. Traveled and lived in hotels and trailers for months.
They didn’t make it from stealing from others.
None of which qualifies as harder work than most jobs or explains how they earn many times the average person’s yearly salary for a fraction of the work.
Does a sportsball player destroy their body any more than a tradesman? How does throwing a ball equate to mining coal?
Actors aren’t being exploited any more than the average worker. Compared to, say, a local news reporter that is on television 5 days a week.
Well I’m not saying the physical work is different than other labor jobs. Or even the mental.
Just saying it IS actual honest work.
Do I think athletes should be paid 5 million for a season. ?
No. But someone thinks they do.
The reason I don’t like billionaires is because of exploitation.
They are bad people causing harm.
I don’t think that’s true about athletes and celebrities.
I don’t like such extreme income inequality either. But I’m not going to lump athletes and celebrities in with unethical exploitive sociopaths just because they are paid high amounts.
Exploitation of others is the factor here. Not anything else.