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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (320457)1/13/2007 2:58:59 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576791
 
I've seen the statistic....the average salary is $2.3 or $2.4 million.

Yes the average overall, but not the average for the people who's career only last a few years.

But ignoring that and looking at players who do make more in three years then most people do in a lifetime - Yes it is acceptable to me. Its rich guy A (the player) getting paid by mega-rich guy B (the owner) because his services have a positive return for B. I have no problem with such a contract arrangement.

You don't......even though taxpayers are footing the bill for the rich owner. Frankly, you sound like a communist to me.......or at least an oligarch. Its not pretty. </i.

Now you're really getting bizarrer. I'm a communist because I support the right to contract and oppose the government directly or indirectly putting in place wage/price controls...

Show me how most of A-Rod's salary for the years he has played for the Yankee's came from the government? You can't because it hasn't. But even if Stienbrenner got the money from the government, that's no reason to limit A-Rod's or Jeter's salary.

If the money comes from the government, then protest the government giving the money to the owner. I'll join you in protest. But the fact that the owner might have gotten the money from the government doesn't give the government the duty or even the right to control the recipents lives or limit the pay of his employees (except as part of the agreement spelled out in the contract).
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