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promomasterj
There is TV money, ticket money, licensing money, concessions, etc etc. Who gets to keep it all - Billionaire owners? The owners need the players and vice versa. They negotiate a deal that works for both sides. There's no bigger morality in it - write or wrong it's a business transaction. How much is it worth to a team to keep a player and pay him? In the end accountants most likely make these decisions.
What about what MLB players make? NBA?
What about a CEO who 'earn's 400 times what the average employee gets?
I'd prefer to see it evened out among all American workers. I see no valid reasons for neck-breaking hierarchies, period. They don't exist in nature. They didn't exist to this extent until fairly recently.
The point of the pyramid has been growing higher and higher for a long, long time. It needs to be flattened in all industries, in my view. The richest 1% now hold more wealth than the bottom 99% combined, and we passed that threshold just in 2016. The denizens of 18th century Versailles would blush in embarrassed at such concentrations of wealth, power and privilege.
Oh, and about those CEOs? It's even worse in Fortune 100 companies. The CEO of Walmart, for instance, makes 1200 times his rank and file workers.
But, if that's not an option, and we're just talking about the NFL . . . I'd rather see the players get it than the Suits. Always have.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/2018 08:43AM by Billy_T.
