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real quick if anyone is confused: professional athletes are paid a lot of money because they generate a lot of money. if you believe that professional athletes should not be paid a proportional share of the revenue they generate, you are anti worker's rights and also fundamentally do not understand how labor works

like hey. im a communist. i am not arguing for rich people. i am arguing for workers to get paid what they are worth for the labor they perform. athletes being paid a lot of money is not a hill you have to die on. it is not a consideration you should be incorporating into your political and economic policy. athletes are not special, they are workers, and if you say "this worker does not deserve to be paid what they are owed" you are anti labor and you should not be trusted under any circumstances.

also like. arguing that white male athletes should not be adequately compensated for their labor is really not the leftist win you think it is when wnba players get 9% of the leagues revenue and pwhl players are forced to work second jobs. if you think the recognizable names of major men's sports shouldn't be compensated, what do you think about workers rights for bench players and 4th liners in women's sports who are paid astronomically less?

Wanted to add that most athletes bodies are badly damaged by the sports they partake in, they need specialist training and support because of how they use their bodies. They are workers who are being hurt by their job and being compensated for their labour.

I invite anyone who doesn't think that big-name white man athletes are performing physical labor and are often treated as disposable after their health and lives are put at risk to go to the Wikipedia entry on Eric Lindros and read the last paragraph of the "Philadelphia Flyers" section. Take note of what they did when he dared to say something about their ineffective care for the injuries he sustained making them money.

wanting to further add: the same unions fighting for athletes' wages are the ones fighting for their safety. motorsport athletes dying horrible, bloody deaths was a very routine occurrence before unions and before the drivers in those unions started pushing for safety measures and demanding their right to live and receive treatment. a major catalyst for this was when jackie stewart, in 1966, hit a telephone pole during an f1 race at spa-francorchamps. he was hung upside down in his car, waist-deep in gasoline, with severe injuries for 25 minutes until other drivers freed him using a fan's toolkit. then he was taken to a dirty shack and placed on the cigarette butt-strewn floor because that was the "care center" for the track. he nearly died - then he started viciously fighting for safety measures, even against his own fellow drivers. he was the chairman of the drivers union from 1972-1978, a period which oversaw a great deal of safety improvements in the sport and a change in the mindset about the need for them. paying athletes a fair wage, which is to say their fair share of the profits generated by the risks they take (whether you like the popularity of sports or not), makes them an investment to the governing body of their sport and to their team. it incentivizes them to care about their players' safety, if not because it's the right thing to do, than because your hottest commodities, your best players, not being on the field/pitch/ice/track/etc isn't gonna help sell tickets or streaming subscriptions or merch.

Chapter 2 is posted!

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you could be having a fine as fuck day and then you see the video of how bryce harper applies toothpaste