This is Absurd, But In What Sense?
The Princess Bride Is as Quotable a Movie as Was Ever Made (Apologies to "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid")
Czech out this statement, or at least the red-rectangled part of it:
This is from the “I don’t think that word [absurd] means what you think it means” department.
Note: I’m as much of a football fan as “the next guy” (and probably even more than most), but still…
The writer is saying that $11 million for a year’s work is absurdly low compensation. To me, that’s a face-slapping (mine or his?) 180-degree-wrong perspective.
The average income in the U.S. is a little less than $60,000 — which is approximately 1/183rd of $11 million. Sure, football careers are short, but not that short. A really good player will probably play at least ten years; “Joe Lunchbucket” will work 40 to 50 years, so it’s still a lifetime compensation difference of astronomical proportions. It would take four or five people working their entire lives to equal just that one-year salary.
Also, the poverty level in the U.S. is considered to be around $15,000 — which is 1/732nd of $11 million.
For someone to make $11 million a year is absurd, I agree. But not in the way the writer meant it.
I love watching “my” Green Bay Packers, and I think Jordan Love is poised to be even better than Brett Favre (who was usually both the best player on the field and the worst player on the field, sometimes on the same play) and Aaron Rodgers (who seems to have either morphed into or been exposed as a prima donna), but … “c’mon, man, get real”!