Ridiculous salaries..

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I like where you were going with your post, but please explain how that is relative?
How would the spending of a resident of a country with a per capita GDP of a little over $3000 dollars be relative to a resident of a country 15 times its GDP? What costs me 10 bucks here probably costs that Honduran a little over 47 cents. But what costs Warrick Dunn $3 in Atlanta pretty much costs $3 for you as well. You can't compare fresh apples to rotten apples my good amigo.

 

I work for a company with thousands of competitors in North America alone. We try to pocket an end of year net profit of 10-15% which is considered excellent for that industry. If we try to make more than that, we get too expensive and start losing business to our competitors regardless of how well of a job we perform. I don't see how the business I'm in can compare to a monopoly. Unless the NFL has to compete with the CFL, WFL, AFL, GFL, and BFL, they're pretty much the only organization which offers professional American Football to the greater public (unless you consider Arena football 'professional') and are free to set their prices as high as they possibly can which leads to to their employees demanding a higher cut of the end year profit.

As for supply and demand, if you regularly get to watch your football live from the stadium, then you're one of the lucky 1.6% of the population who can afford to do so.