another universe

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submitted 11 years ago

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bnorb · 10-Year Club · 20 points · 11 years ago

*Sadly, in an other universe.
Also, that butt doesn't look like it's worked off.

dragonson04 · Experienced · 13 points · 11 years ago

"Any professional athlete that makes more than any teacher is making too much."
(I can't remember who said it though)

dutchwebsurfer · 4 points · 11 years ago

well, you can tell people you said it :)

Reimgard · 3 points · 11 years ago

i agree.

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DagwoodBumstead · -3 points · 11 years ago

The number of people capable of performing at the level required to be a professional athlete is orders of magnitude lower than those capable of teaching. Being a teacher is not a particularly high-skill occupation and it's not really all that hard work, despite what they might tell you (it's no more difficult or demanding than any other mid-level white collar job) and there's not really a shortage except in a few areas like physics. So on the one hand we have high skill, high demand, low supply people. On the other we have relatively low skill, low demand, high supply people. One group is going to get paid a lot more than the other, and rightly so. Same goes for rock stars, actors, hedge fund managers etc..

Creative_I_Be · Hardcore Commenter · 5 points · 11 years ago

Well, teaching is more important for humanity than professional sports. The reason professional athletes get so much money and teachers get a lot less is just supply & demand. But the reasoning behind this saying is we should break through that, make maximum wages for professional athletes and increase the minimum wage of a teacher. So your post explains why it is like it is nowadays, but the saying is focussed on changing how it is.

MoleOfWar · 1 points · 11 years ago

Yes but it's sad that lot are payed more to run after a ball than the one who is piloting a ***ing plane with responsibility for easily over 400 lives on his shoulders. It request lot of skill and concentration and if he fails the consequences are far more gruesome...
With money, responsibility, skill and risk should get over demand.
Also the ***ing bankers should not be payed so much to destroy economy as they don't lift a finger and *** up so many lives and leave with golden parachute (and the bank ask the state for money because they don't have enough)...

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Coolstorybro · 4 points · 11 years ago

aand they're fat also.

Creative_I_Be · Hardcore Commenter · 0 points · 11 years ago

That's not a real difference

MrS3H3 · 5 points · 11 years ago

repost

Atlas · 5 points · 11 years ago

Can't we just... write a world like that on paper like what Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels did...

but their world wasn't so bright and successfull and it failed.