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Old 03-06-2018, 06:22 PM   #61
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Right. But 20 mil isn’t the lowest number on the “rich scale”.

Rich entertainers, poor entertainers, they’re still entertainers. The other folks I mentioned make the world work.

They are entitled to complain, everyone does. Some complaints have more weight to them is all.

Am I derailing the original purpose of this thread?
One could easily make the same argument that doctors and lawyers are overpaid, despite making the world "work". And if you feel that entertainers are overpaid, you don't have to patronize them. You can always watch free community theater at your local library, college, or high school.
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Old 03-06-2018, 06:25 PM   #62
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One could easily make the same argument that doctors and lawyers are overpaid, despite making the world "work". And if you feel that entertainers are overpaid, you don't have to patronize them. You can always watch free community theater at your local library, college, or campus.
Doctors? Overpaid?
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Old 03-06-2018, 06:26 PM   #63
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Doctors? Overpaid?
Yup.
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Old 03-08-2018, 01:36 PM   #64
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Yup.
Even doctors think they're overpaid.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/08/h...rnd/index.html
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Old 03-08-2018, 02:54 PM   #65
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They should get to, you’re right. I just feel more empathy for the teachers striking in West Virginia than I do entertainers.
Teachers have so much extra burden that thrust upon them it's not even funny. You guys do great , and at times greatly underappreciated work. My handful of teacher friends, spanning from college to elementary teachers, and it's allll some sort of struggle. Supplying students with tools to even succeed at an education (because the parents can't afford it) to being looked at as the person who needs to teach discipline. It's all a nightmare. And I feel bad because most teachers really want to help kids succeed -- they just don't have the means to do so.

But you want to talk about a broken pay system -- school superintendents. In Delaware is a HUGE issue where one school - school, not district - has multiple superintendents that all make six figure salaries. Like WTF is that?!

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Even doctors think they're overpaid.

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That mentality is never happening in the US. I wish it would, but it won't. And I don't mean the overpaid, doctors should make money, I mean the distribution of the wealth.
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That mentality is never happening in the US. I wish it would, but it won't.
We've been an ochlocracy much longer than we've been a democracy.
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