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Old 01-19-2005, 01:52 PM   #59
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Originally Posted by Cardinal Rule
You may be of the opinion that a dominant baseball player is or is not worth x million per year. But the fact is that he's worth whatever money he can get. A trash collector makes more money than a teacher in my part of the country. A landscaper makes more money than a fireman. It's all relative. 40,000 people don't pay 10 bucks a shot to watch a trash collector, teacher, landscaper, or fireman. Yet you may be of the opinion that all of them add more value to society than does a baseball player. But it's the world we live in.

I am of all of those opinions, and I still stay the values in this 'world we live in' are out of whack.

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