bennymacca wrote:Psyber wrote:The amount of money footballers are paid makes me think all teams budgets should be reduced to 10% of their present levels...
Why? So the afl, the clubs, and the tv stations can earn all of the money?
At present they earn about 25% of the total revenue generated by the game, which seems fine to me.
Personally I think doctors earn a ridiculous amount of money, and play on the fears of people about their health to charge exorbitant fees.
I just think we overvalue entertainers of various sorts and should pay those working in pure scientific research and teaching science better.
As far as doctors go, I'm actually grossing more per day doing locum work in semi-rural public hospitals than I ever grossed in private practice - about double in fact - and without the $90 an hour cost of keeping my own office open...
My last full year in private practice I took home $80K.
Admittedly I was only working a 37 hour week then because of my wife's poor health.