Always leaving the mechanics out lol. My career is always under looked but yet everyone comes crawling in when their car doesn't work haha
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I thought anthletes are basically amateurs and only a few get famous enough to have sponsorship deals?
College athletes yes (historically, this is significantly less true now)
But professional athletes, assuming the name it to the big leagues are generally very well paid even for random guys you don't know. Star athletes make millions/tens of millions per season
That and their careers are short. You forgo a normal career for like 5-10 years of trying to make it big in a major sport. Then, you get injured or replaced by someone a bit more spry. You have to save the money the give you to really make it worth it, but most just squander it because they are young and dumb and don’t realize it’s temporary.
Outside of the USA? You can still start around the 70's as a time when medical costs started increasing as the greatest generation started to retire, taking away talent from the workforce and starting to use all those retirement benefits they were entitled to. You also had an increase in quality of medicine, which usually came at a cost.
Funding these higher costs would require new taxes, which was becoming politically unpopular across First World democracies.
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"In front" has a space.
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Yo thanks so much, glad I could learn so much today
Athletes that have spent thousands of hours training their whole lives to be the some of best in the world at their craft, generate billions of dollars doing their job. Why shouldn't they get paid well from that pool of billions?
Teachers, nurses, etc should get paid more, but their professions don't generate the same kind of revenue as the entertainment industry, so that money has to come from some other source, like the government.
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I say it was around 1998 when George W. Bush meet with Harambe’s mom.
Assuming your talking about the top line players making millions, because your median professional athlete is barely covering there costs if you include athletes outside of the big 5 sports in the US and those outside of the top flight leagues. Then like any performer embedded in the monoculture it happened when mass media became a thing.
Once your able to sell discs, tapes, TV ads on a mass scale with extremely low marginal cost anyone with a claim to that media property can make millions off of it.
A doctor can't treat millions of people at the same time. A teacher can't effectively teach millions of people a day. Taylor Swift and shohei ohtani can entertain 10s of thousands of people in a stadium at a time and millions at any moment through streaming.
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