Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
Originally Posted By: Beachboy
I only watch sitcoms, and 2½ Men is one of my favorites, but when is the world going to get salaries of pro athletes and entertainers back to reality? I'm tired of people who make more in 5 minutes of work than I do in a year.
When millions of people stop paying so much to watch them do what they do. Their pay is equal to their value. Your value (and mine, too) isn't equal to theirs. The problem isn't what those people get paid. They get their fair share. The problem is what the average person believes they're worth. Pro sports and television actors aren't worth a dime of my money, but they're worth hundreds of dollars to millions of people, so the athletes and actors get to share in the profit, as they should.
What was the "value" of Albert Einstein? Sir. Sanford Flemming? Alexander Graham Bell? Benjamin Franklin?
Any one of those individuals has FAR more value than any professional athlete. Than any actor. But what they earned during their lives is a pittance compared to what these individuals make. I don't see any "value" in that.
FWIW, when Henry Ford died, his fortune that was left to his heir was just over 1 billion dollars.
Charlie Sheen is apparently worth 1.7 billion.
Now obviously inflation factors in there. But I think there is a serious problem when an actor, who's contributions to society are equivalent to those of a modern day court jester is financially on-par with the man who pioneered the assembly line and brought us affordable transportation.