No offense or judgement meant to anyone if that’s your thing (to each their own). That’s just how I see pretty much all professional sports - the super bowl is just the poster child for it.

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    Construction workers have to risk 40 years of damage to get the same amount of money.

    40k is if you’re dumb enough to keep an that money in the chequing account

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      Maybe the construction workers deserve more money?

      Edit: It is also worth mentioning that if the median salary is 860k, and the minimum salary is 870k at one year, what are your chances for making that 3 years in comparison to making 40 as a construction worker?

      • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        21 year ago

        Average career length in the NFL is 3.3 years

        After making hundreds of thousands for a year or two you can still retire safely and live off the interests. 2.8m gets you 140k/year, you don’t need that much to live, even with 1m in the bank you’re safely making an extra 50k/year (about median US salary), allowing you to pretty much choose to take whatever side job you want no matter the salary to end up more comfortable than the vast majority of the population.

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          31 year ago

          Go be a football player then, if you have it all figured out.

          Personally, with 80% going bankrupt after 3 years, I don’t like those odds

          • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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            21 year ago

            Because they’re basically kids who get money thrown at them in a system that encourages them to spend it on stupid shit.

            “Go Be A fOoTbAlL pLaYeR tHeN!”

            Hey bud, I would gladly work a job where I make 800k/year for a year or two and retire if I had the competences, not everyone can become an NFL player, but I sure as hell could manage their money better than most do!

            • @Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world
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              I would too. It’s just that the job you described doesn’t exist, and all I’m saying is that it’s not that simple.

              Even if it did, and there was an 80% chance I would end up bankrupt, I wouldn’t play those odds.