Working for peanuts

Teachers, nurses, childcare professionals. There's a long list of people who are underpaid. And on the other side of this list, we have people in sports and entertainment. Let's check in with people in those well-compensated industries and see if they're making a good case for their high salaries:
Lee Corso, football TV studio host: “Let me tell you something: On Thursday morning I get up, I get on a first-class plane and fly to a place and stay in a nice hotel and get a lot of great meals. First class! Then I go and talk football for a couple hours, I see the best game of the year and I get on a plane in first class and I go home. And they pay me! Why the hell would you ever think about retiring? It’s like stealing. It’s like stealing. Why would you ever think about retiring?"
He's amazed that they pay him. Simply by drawing a salary, he feels like he's stealing.
Robert Tonyan, football player: "You can change my number to whatever you want. I just want to be on the team."
He plays for the Green Bay Packers, who have a high-profile player at the same position (Jimmy Graham), and Tonyan is happy simply to be on the roster.
Noel Gallagher, musician: "I enjoy being famous, because I don’t have to do anything. I can just turn up at nice restaurants and people are like, ‘Oh, it’s Noel fucking Gallagher. Brilliant. Sit down.’ Whenever the label asks if I want to go to New York to do promos, I always say yes immediately. And the label is always like, ‘Are you sure? It’s going to require a lot of interviews?’ And I’m like — I don’t give a fuck. You’re gonna fucking fly me first class to New York and put me in this amazing hotel? And my wife can go fucking shopping four hours a day? What is not to like about that?"
Okay, we can safely put him down as someone who would accept less money for the job he does.

But obviously if anyone is making money in sports and entertainment, it should be the players and entertainers, rather than the team owners and record labels, right. So what did we learn by looking at these quotes? Well, nothing. But it was fun to paste in those quotes.









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