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.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months ago
Complaining about athletes just makes it sound petty. Athletes are just employees, if you’re going to complain, complain about the athletes’ and nurses’ employers. Rich people never gave a flying fuck about their employees, and underfunded schools are a feature for them, too.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 10 months ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months 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.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 10 months ago
We aren’t talking about those athletes. Nobody thinks that professional athletes that don’t make any money are overpaid.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
hey now be fair, there are absolutely sports fans who think the teams they dislike would be paid too much if their salary consisted of lethal injections.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 months ago
Baseball players went on strike in 1972. They’d had a ‘union’ since the 1800s, but always bowed to the owners.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Complaining about athletes just makes it sound petty.
And your opening statement makes your entire post sound completely out of touch.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 10 months 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.