The hard question

[Maniac]

Yeah, but they can do something nobody in the world can do. I'm not knocking your job, but let's use another example, like trash collection. Well, anyone could do that, so it pays bad. Nobody can play pool at top levels but a very small percentage of the population.

That's how wages should come out in my opinion. If nobody can do it, it should pay amazing. If everyone can do it, it should pay crap. That's why sports are so great; it's the one thing we have where all that matters is how good you are. Everything else in life all that matters is how willing you are to screw other people over to get ahead.

We'll have to agree to disagree, because in my opinion a person should be paid by how necessary their jobs are to humans everyday life. How necessary is the trash collector to civilization as compared to the professional pool player? Well, I can assure you that humanity will continue to survive and prosper if ALL professional pool players just suddenly disappeared. Not so with trash collectors.

As far as my job was concerned, you can thank the auto assemblers every time you drive to the emergency room, grocery store, or pool hall instead of taking the ol' horse and buggy. In my 45 years since I went to work and have been retired, I have not once been thanked by anyone for doing a job that obviously makes their life abundantly easier. Not once. In fact, just the opposite HAS happened. I cannot count on both hands how many times I've been told I was overpaid, to which I would reply "think about what you just said when you get into your vehicle and drive to wherever you're going next".

As far as pro pool players talents go, well yes, some of them are better than others, but not by leaps and bounds. And, the gap between top tier players and the next lower tier is closing with each passing day. On any given day, the pool "god" can lose to a no name player. Happens all the time. Can a no name guy step into a ring with Connor McGregor and have a chance of winning? Can a no name guy get on an offensive line and keep Clay Matthews off their quarterback? Not just no, but HELL NO. This is what make highly-paid professional athletes a different breed than a pro pool player. The comparisons are not even close. Hell, I've seen fat-assed, half-drunk, cigarette smoking, sorry excuse of humanity be able to shoot pro level pool. Some "athlete".

I've never understood all the nut-hugging attention given to professional pool players. They're nothing special....and they're doing something that I'd rather be doing myself than watching them do it.

Just my opinions, but I don't begrudge you yours.

Maniac

 

[LC3]

Who should compensate pro players? The event director

Why should that entity compensate the pro players? He has the money.

How does that entity arrive at the right compensation? The (take minus the overhead) allocated into the top paid spots: 36%, 17%, 11%, 8%, 7%, 6%, 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 1%

Where does the event director get the money? Is there enough of a market for there to be a schedule of events that generate the kind of pay that pros in other sports make?

Let's consider golf. Where does the money in golf come from? Why does that flow of money happen in golf, but not in pool?

 

[Maniac]

Where does the event director get the money? Is there enough of a market for there to be a schedule of events that generate the kind of pay that pros in other sports make?

Let's consider golf. Where does the money in golf come from? Why does that flow of money happen in golf, but not in pool?

Sponsors with deeper pockets, spreading their wealth/profits around a bit more generously?

Maniac