What a crazy world we live in!!

[nickyboy]

We could easily pay surgeons a million quid a week, and nurses too if you like.

Just write the amount of tax you'd like to pay on the back of an envelope...

Quite. I don't understand this salary comparison argument. Do those who complain about disparities want the surgeons to earn as much as the footballers (so we, the non-surgeons, have to pay for this) or do they want footballers to earn as much as surgeons (how do you control how much someone in China pays someone?)

Surgeons are clever people. But there are actually quite a lot of clever people around. That's why they get paid a good whack, but not a stratospheric amount. How many people possess Bale's football skills? Very, very few and it's a very popular skill to watch. Hence the stratospheric amounts involved

In my line of work I talk to people around the globe. They all want to talk about football, particularly Premiership football. Here in UK most people don't realise how globally popular English football is

 

[MontyVeda]

Why do people always find excuses to justify the absurd, obscene amount of money these guys make for very little work?
Like I said in my title, we live in a crazy world that showers people with limited talents with huge amount of money .

so it is all about the money isn't it.

 

[gavroche]

so it is all about the money isn't it.

Isn't the way the world is run all about money? That's why I say we live in a crazy world ans personally, I don't like it but have no choice about it, but I am still free to express my opinion.

 

[AndyRM]

Isn't the way the world is run all about money? That's why I say we live in a crazy world ans personally, I don't like it but have no choice about it, but I am still free to express my opinion.

That's quite a departure from your opening post.

 

[swee'pea99]

Here in UK most people don't realise how globally popular English football is

Stopped in a little village in the middle of Morocco recently to get a few bits for lunch. Three of the four people in the shop didn't speak French, much less English. But mention of 'Arsenal...Manchester City...Liverpool' brought beaming smiles all round.

 

[MontyVeda]

That's quite a departure from your opening post.

its always the same... people complain about footballers' wages yet deny that there's any sort of money envy going on

 

[nickyboy]

Stopped in a little village in the middle of Morocco recently to get a few bits for lunch. Three of the four people in the shop didn't speak French, much less English. But mention of 'Arsenal...Manchester City...Liverpool' brought beaming smiles all round.

I was in some small city in rural China and I had a long conversation with the taxi driver about Wayne Rooney

 

[screenman]

There is a cleaner at a place I go too who is never to be seen doing any work, he is well known for being idle and hiding from anything that may look like work, he is overpaid in my humble, the fact that I contribute to his wages has made me mention it in the past.

 

[lane]

Quite. I don't understand this salary comparison argument. Do those who complain about disparities want the surgeons to earn as much as the footballers (so we, the non-surgeons, have to pay for this) or do they want footballers to earn as much as surgeons (how do you control how much someone in China pays someone?)

Surgeons are clever people. But there are actually quite a lot of clever people around. That's why they get paid a good whack, but not a stratospheric amount. How many people possess Bale's football skills? Very, very few and it's a very popular skill to watch. Hence the stratospheric amounts involved

In my line of work I talk to people around the globe. They all want to talk about football, particularly Premiership football. Here in UK most people don't realise how globally popular English football is

In some fields being slightly better than anyone else or most people can translate to big rewards. Some barristers earn large sums but the majority do not. Sports people obviously. Some areas of finance arguably. Maybe not doctors or surgeons or teachers or social workers though - the really good ones probably get little or nothing more than the barely adequate. It all depends if there is a market mechanism to provide exceptional rewards to the truly exceptional in the field.

 

[gavroche]

That's quite a departure from your opening post.

Really?

 

[Rusty Nails]

The op is correct about one thing. It is a crazy world we live in. For all sorts of reasons, with Bale's earnings quite low on the ranking of importance.