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From: Padraig Breathnach on 2 Aug 2006 06:45 "A Human Being" <justahumanbeing1(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Dave Frightens Me wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:56:29 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >Why are professional basketball players paid more than teachers and >> >doctors? >> >> Because they are more valuable. > >In what way is their work more useful to society than that of doctors >and teachers ? > The claim Mixi made is that they are more valuable, not that are more useful to society. If you want to sell sweatshirts or fizzy drinks or trainers or chocolate bars or cars or whatever, whose endorsement is more useful to you, that of a teacher or that of a basketball player? Do try to keep up. We are living in a capitalist world where the idea of being useful to society is regarded as socialist anathema. -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 2 Aug 2006 06:55 Mxsmanic avait nonc : > NewsReader : Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 > Newsgroups : rec.travel.europe > > Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> If it's valuable, why aren't you better off? > > Why are professional basketball players paid more than teachers and > doctors? The words "free" and "market" come to mind. -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Dave Frightens Me on 2 Aug 2006 06:59 On 2 Aug 2006 03:30:09 -0700, "A Human Being" <justahumanbeing1(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Dave Frightens Me wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:56:29 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >Dave Frightens Me writes: >> > >> >> If it's valuable, why aren't you better off? >> > >> >Why are professional basketball players paid more than teachers and >> >doctors? >> >> Because they are more valuable. > >In what way is their work more useful to society than that of doctors >and teachers ? I never said there work is more valuable. There are far fewer professional basketball players that doctors or teachers, so they can get much more money. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 08:48 Padraig Breathnach writes: > The claim Mixi made is that they are more valuable, not that are more > useful to society. No, I didn't make any such claim. I asked why they are paid more, which is not the same thing. > If you want to sell sweatshirts or fizzy drinks or trainers or > chocolate bars or cars or whatever, whose endorsement is more useful > to you, that of a teacher or that of a basketball player? Neither, according to the most recent research I've seen. The heyday of celebritiy endorsements is gone now. Most younger people choose their brands and products and services based on criteria that have nothing to do with celebrity endorsements. > Do try to keep up. We are living in a capitalist world where the idea > of being useful to society is regarded as socialist anathema. Only by those who don't actually understand how healthy societies work. Capitalism isn't so much the problem as stock markets are the problem. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 08:49
Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > The words "free" and "market" come to mind. A free market exists for doctors, teachers, and basketball players alike, in the United States. Why do real-estate agents make so much more than plumbers? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |