What do you think about earnings?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1817753]

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Actually football wages did used to be capped at a particular set level in the past. At one point the maximum wage for a footballer was £4 per week.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Fwages.htm


Is this an IP issue for you more generally?

I think it's a general objection to the idea of "special pleading" that "my profession/job/career is extra important". Lots of very wealthy rock stars or sportsmen wail about high taxes because they say that they only earn for a very short portion of their lives. It never seems to occur to them that, perhaps, the solution to earning only for a short proportion of their lives might be to do something else to earn. They seem quite happy with the proposition that they should only work for a small proportion of their lives. Nice for them I suppose.