In the last 60 years professional sports has skyrocketed in fan interest and player income. In the mid 60’s, a typical baseball player would earn $20,000/year and required a full time job in the off season to make ends meet. Football and basketball players were around 15,000/year and poor golfers shared a prize payout of $65K of which the leader walked away with 11 grand and the basement finishers got pennies. Add 6 decades and a 10 fold multiplier for inflation and you’ll see the average player today should get nearly $200,000; a comfortable income for a normal family of 4 without excessive materialistic desires. The only problem here is that professional athletes have short careers due to accumulated injuries. This is especially evident in contact sports such as football, hockey and soccer. To compensate, players’ representatives have gotten hugh salaries for all the players starting at $2 million and going up and up for key positions. It’s only fair that if you trash a person’s 1 and only body that you would compensate them for it. This brings up another dangerous career known as a soldier. This non-union trade has employees of considerable talent in operating complex machinery such as fighter jets whose only purpose is to kill a threatening foe. These people should also be compensated at today’s athletes’ rates. They are in fact, just like sports players, the very best in the world. So when a 1,000 soldier battalion goes into battle with a combined salary of half a billion dollars/year, countries might think twice about going to war, especially if there are no spectators to pay for this utter destructive form of gaming. The sad finale leaves behind grieving parents and fatherless children, all for the financial gain of a few bad men. Humans can at times, be galactically stupid.
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