posted on April 9, 2004 01:57:51 PM new
Alex Rodriguez plays 3rd base for the NY Yankees and makes $126,000 per AT BAT!!! How can I stay focused thinking about this?? $126,000 per AT BAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! The average season a player get 500-600 at bats. I get all tickled when I pay $3 for something and make $55.....I wonder if you loose your perspective on money when you are filthy rich....If the next time he went to the car wash the little machine said "$100 for 3 minutes" would he leave??
posted on April 9, 2004 02:07:43 PM new
Most people will manage to make well over $1 million over the course of their lives. Some middle-class folks will get to $2 or $3 million.
Sports stars' careers are short, that's why the payoff is very large. Washed up at 30, they've got to live on something for the next 40 or 50 years.
I wonder if you loose your perspective on money when you are filthy rich....
posted on April 9, 2004 02:25:56 PM new
Sports stars' careers are short, that's why the payoff is very large. Washed up at 30, they've got to live on something for the next 40 or 50 years.
posted on April 9, 2004 03:07:07 PM new
Shorter careers, shorter lives, cronic pain many times leading to addiction to addiction to pain killers, no right to pprivacy and a skill level held by only a handful of people. They earn their pay.
The ones I have dealt with that have a skewed perspective have gotten it not by the money they make but by the way people treat them becaus of how much money they make.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on April 9, 2004 03:39:38 PM new
My husband's sister and my own brother are both filthy rich--gazillion. Both worry excessively about their invested money, to the point of sickness. Last time there was a major recession in our country, my brother's wife and her sister flew to Switzerland with suitcases full of cash.
I know that someone will say they're rich BECAUSE they pay attention to their money. We are very comfortably well off and have paid attention to what we've done with our money--but we don't spend our lives worrying about it all the time.
I also know there's a point below which the lack of money becomes an awful problem. I'm just talking about people who seem obsessed with how rich they are. My sister-in-law told me one time that they couldn't live long enough to spend all their money--but still they worry. As if it's their whole identity.
The "attitude problem" some of them have isn't related only to how people treat them but how THEY think they OUGHT TO be treated. The privilege of wealth, and all that!
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posted on April 9, 2004 07:25:07 PM new
Don't feel sorry for Baseball players. They make their money while playing. Then they retire. Well! lo and behold 10 years after they retire they get their pension. They have to be able to live for 10 years on the money they make then the next level of money comes. I have no idea how much they get in retirement. I only know this about baseball players because we knew a professional player, if football or basketball is the same I don't know but remember no matter what professional sport you play there is always someone looking out for you and that is why they belong to their union.
