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From: Mxsmanic on 6 Aug 2006 05:57 A Human Being writes: > So are midgets and people over 7 ft tall. Why aren't they paid just as > much as professional models or basketball or football players? For sports figures, it's because they are not exhibited on television. Television provides virtually all the money earned in professional sports. Sports that do not interest television networks pay very poorly indeed. When a sport manages to negotiate television rights for its activities, it suddenly becomes very flush with cash; if an established sport loses its broadcasting agreements, it may very nearly go bankrupt. For models, well, professional models aren't paid very well to begin with, despite illusions to the contrary. There are a few in the USA who can command high hourly rates, but not many. Models outside the USA often don't get rich even when they are popular, as the big money is in places like New York. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Dave Frightens Me on 6 Aug 2006 06:06 On 6 Aug 2006 01:22:42 -0700, "A Human Being" <justahumanbeing1(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Keith Willshaw wrote: >> "A Human Being" <justahumanbeing1(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:1154803690.410727.179640(a)n13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> > >> >> >> >> >> Because they are a rarity. >> > >> > So are midgets and people over 7 ft tall. Why aren't they paid just as >> > much as professional models or basketball or football players? >> > >> >> Most basketball players seem to fall into the latter of your two groups > >There are some people who are taller than but not basketball players. >If being a rarity is all that matters, then the likes of Robert Wadlow >and Leonid Stadnik should have been billionaires. They could have been if they had wanted. Oh, and you're still an idiot. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 6 Aug 2006 12:46 The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: > Following up to David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy > of city south and deansgate > > >Most realtors aren't top-earners. > > am I alone in not liking that word? Its odd to say in my accent. > I prefer estate agent, assuming they are the same thing? Apparently not, which I didn't know. I just thought realtor was an americanism... -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org
From: Mxsmanic on 6 Aug 2006 14:27 Dave Frightens Me writes: > Sport provides a civilised means of competition. This is of enormous > value, as the British empire demonstrated. Sport was of enormous value to the British Empire? There are many forms of competition that seem civilized enough to me. Sport is unique in that it is competition that serves no useful purpose ... and it isn't always civilized. > Then you would have a heap of unemployed soldiers and arms > manufacturers, so the point is moot. That's better than having a heap of dead soldiers. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Tim C. on 6 Aug 2006 15:41
On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:27:34 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >There are many forms of competition that seem civilized enough to me. >Sport is unique in that it is competition that serves no useful >purpose ... and it isn't always civilized. It can be seen as a stylised version of warfare. In that sense it serves a very useful purpose. -- Tim C. |