AZ Jim
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Has it really occurred to you how much these top actors and athletes make (I didn't say earn intentionally)? What is wrong with us that we allow a climate to exist where an actor can make 20 million dollars for making one movie, where an athlete can receive a similar amount as a signing bonus? Most of the people involved in both industries would do what they do for "normal" wages if that huge money wasn't in the offing. Is it not obscene that a person could work their entire working life for maybe a total of $500k for 30 years labor only to see the subjects of this post flaunt their wealth.
Lest anyone say in the case of an athlete that the toll on their body justifies the salary, let me answer that by saying what then of the laborer who takes a toll on his body over all those years of hard, often backbreaking work.
Actors need the lights, the praise, the adoration. It's what gives them life. How much would they have to be paid to do their art were the huge money not available? What put us where we are? How can it be altered?
It is obscene to suggest any of the above subject are that valuable for doing their job while so many others work 100 times harder for thousand of times less..
Lest anyone say in the case of an athlete that the toll on their body justifies the salary, let me answer that by saying what then of the laborer who takes a toll on his body over all those years of hard, often backbreaking work.
Actors need the lights, the praise, the adoration. It's what gives them life. How much would they have to be paid to do their art were the huge money not available? What put us where we are? How can it be altered?
It is obscene to suggest any of the above subject are that valuable for doing their job while so many others work 100 times harder for thousand of times less..
