Awww, looks like little Miss "My minimum wage should be $17 an hour" got her wittle feewings hurt that no one cares how idiots in Australia are paid and went away to cry.
Good freaking riddance. We have enough trouble with homegrown fools, without adding fools from other countries.
I'm sorry but it was night time in Australia and some people need to sleep, so that is why I wasn't here to respond.
I get the sense you don't respect the opinions of others, specifically those who live outside the US. That is a shame.
What is also a shame is the fact that you don't know me, know nothing about me, yet have determined that I am a troll, and not simply someone interested in discussion.
At least I can still remain civil, even though we obviously disagree.
I will ask you just one question, though - footballers earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. They can earn millions if they play well enough. Yet they simply entertain people and kick a ball around.
Paramedics, doctors, firefighters and police officers earn next to nothing compared to footballers.
If you ask me, those who have a job that saves lives should be paid more money than those who simply have a lot of energy - would you agree?
Actually, Sparky, I was referring to your last post, not the time.
And I can remain civil. I choose to do so only with people who've earned it, and you haven't. Please don't attempt to hold yourself up to me as an example I should emulate, because nothing you've said or done indicates to me that I want to be ANYTHING like you. Don't flatter yourself.
"Simply" entertain people? You think it's simple, do you? Can YOU do it? How many people in the world do you think can perform the "simple" task of playing football - or any sport, for that matter - well enough to do so professionally?
As to who should be paid more, no one DID ask you. Nor is anyone going to, because only damned fools and children think that there's some sort of overall governing board deciding who "deserves" to be paid more, or that there should be.
I think jobs pay according to several things, none of which are "Noomi's personal opinion of what is and isn't important". Among the deciding factors are:
1) How many people in the population are capable of doing that job at that level; and
2) How much revenue that job generates for whomever is writing the paychecks.
Now then, let's consider. Working with American football (I assume that when you say "football", you're actually talking about what we call soccer, which is a lot less popular here), specifically the National Football League - and someone help me out if I go wrong, because I don't follow sports - the NFL has 32 teams. During the regular season, they have a 53-man roster. That would be 1,696 players. Total.
How many doctors do you suppose there are in the United States? Hell, there are hundreds just in my
city. And that's a job that requires some very stringent requirements and huge amounts of education, but there are STILL huge numbers of people out there who have actually acquired the necessary license to do that job, and even more who COULD have, and chose to do something else.
Moving on to paramedics, police officers and firefighters, the requirements and education become much broader and easier to meet, and the number of qualified possibles goes up exponentially.
Furthermore, those 1,696 NFL players generate about $6 billion a year in revenue. If my math isn't off, that would be $3,537,735 per player. The median NFL salary is about $1.4 million a year, which sounds a lot more reasonable in that perspective.
Of course, we all know that EVERY player on an NFL roster isn't bringing in the same amount of revenue, and not every player is getting paid like that. The NFL has its own minimum wage, which according to the most recent figures I can find, is about $310,000.
By contrast, how much revenue does each and every doctor out there generate for the people writing his paycheck? Every paramedic, firefighter, and cop?
Like it or don't, but you can't pay people with money you don't have, and there's going to be an upwards cap on what's paid to people who generate little or no revenue because (in the case of firefighters and cops) they're government employees, or to people who are relatively easy to replace. If your city has a shortage of police officers (as mine does), it's not from a lack of qualifed applicants; it's because your city is too busy spending the money on other shit . . . perhaps some of those social programs you leftists are so fond of. You don't even want to KNOW how much useless bullshit my city council spends its money on instead of putting more cops on the street.
....or you could have joined the military.
