Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?

rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And the overwhelming majority of athletes do not earn well. It’s only the top 1% that gets rich, and only those in sports with a lot of public appeal.

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• Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always hate when this argument is used when were talking about celebrities here. As if a famous athlete or a famous musicians relation to labour and the benefits of that labour is at all comparable to say a coal miner’s relationship with capital.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Professions that have a high pay cealing do have a different relationship to capital than miners, nurses etc., but most athletes and musicians still aren’t millionaires. It just feels like a waste of effort to complain about a celebrity who owns tens of millions, when the core issue is the people who own hundreds and thousands of millions. Crab bucket mentality IMO.

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We aren’t talking about those athletes. Nobody thinks that professional athletes that don’t make any money are overpaid.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Baseball players went on strike in 1972. They’d had a ‘union’ since the 1800s, but always bowed to the owners.

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• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Complaining about athletes just makes it sound petty.

  And your opening statement makes your entire post sound completely out of touch.

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