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You didnt' respond to what I actually said.
As soon as you and I are among the mere 20 or so people on the planet who can perform a crucial task at a high level for a multi-billion dollar industry, we'll get that kind of money too.
The rest is just "contract resentment" and I don't do that.
For example, I never sit there during a good move resenting how much the top actor or actress makes.
We only do this kind of puritanical admonishing with sports stars. For some reason that is unknown to me.
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I look at it in quite a different way. I don't see it as a justifiable way to separate and segregate workers, one from the other, into these neck-breaking hierarchies, tiers, etc. I don't see it as possible, even in a sport, even in something that has stats to make obvious distinctions -- which are lacking in most other industries. Both from the compensation end -- the differences between player comp -- and the measurements used to slot the comp.
IMO, it's an entirely absurd inflation of differences, because human beings simply don't exceed one another in performance enough to set up those radical hierarchies and tiers -- not to that degree, anyway. Degrees of difference, certainly. But not THAT much.
Again, I liken it to humans versus crustaceans, or something like it. In an all-human league, organization, institution, cartel, company . . . etc. etc. . . . there is simply not enough difference between the performance of one human being and the next to justify massive differences in compensation. If humans were at the top of the hierarchy, and Eastern Shore crabs were at the bottom . . . yeah, sure. But not if we're dealing with just humans. Our mental, physical, emotional capacities and time limitations just don't warrant it.
