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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] I think however that after the advent of free agency, that player demands for salary have spiraled way out control and has lost touch with reality. I gots to say that 20 million for playing a game or making a movie is far too much; however, the other side of my brain is kicking me and it tells me that the players and actors are finally getting a bigger piece of the collective pie. In other words their efforts have been making HUGE amounts of money for owners of teams and studios for years and perhaps its time for them to get what they should from the "system." And then getting even more nuanced, and back to a previous question...to what extent does a basketball dunk have more value to a society than a piece of art does? If one looks at the history of baseball for example, during the early part of the 20th century, the heyday of the Yankees and Babe Ruth, one can see how baseball was an instrument to quell worker unhappiness in urban areas. After all, it was one of the few places in New York that the average worker could go and see so much green grass! Moreover, the daily grind in a factory and life in a widowless tenement were hardly something to look forward to. I imagine that were Marx to see the rise of modern sports, he may very well equate it with religion as a way to keep the masses fat, happy, and in check. Whereas, good art tends to challenge societal norms, the status quo, ect. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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