How does income inequality hurt ANYONE

[Sea Dangles]

If the salary of an NBA player goes up then so does the price of a ticket to the game. If you enjoy taking your family to a game of any sorts,tell me it doesn't hurt.
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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

If the salary of an NBA player goes up then so does the price of a ticket to the game. If you enjoy taking your family to a game of any sorts,tell me it doesn't hurt.
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It's a lot more complex than that. It's part of the total economic system being bent, stretched, expanding as more money is filtered into its various parts. The high paid Athlete, show biz, entertainment market in general is similar on a more expensive scale to the middle and lower paid labor market in effect when its wages go up. When wages in the rest of the market go up, the prices of the products do as well. But other factors, in a healthy market, compensate by leveling or overall raising in other ways.

Various discount ways to deliver products are devised, as well as being accompanied by the usual inflationary effect of wages rising all around as prices rise. Prices today for most things are much higher than they were 20, 30, 40 years ago by average factors of 4 to 15 times higher, or more. And wages have also risen by similar factors.

The dramatically rising wages in professional sports, in one way, have made going to games accessible to more fans than in the lower paying past. More money has attracted more to choose a sport over another profession, to be more dedicated and better at it, to devote far more time in training, etc. And so, because the pool of highly skilled athletes has expanded, more teams are able to be created and dispersed into cities that once did not have a team. Far more fans can attend games than in the past. And, of course, all the surrounding business and infrastructure is expanded as well. More jobs, better facilities, more things to do, growth, in general, is a product of more money being earned and spent.

And the great influx of money also makes attractive the expanded opportunities of the stay at home viewers. Viewing channels are created, sports talk shows abound, the aftermarket in clothing and paraphernalia booms, and so on. The present is the sports home-viewer's heaven. Huge high def TV's at lower costs than some original televisions, an endless variety and supply of stuff to eat and drink in well furnished man-caves which are more and more being availed by the fairer sex as well.

Sure, the immediate impact on some "hurts." But for most . . . it's all good.

[iamskippy]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

If the salary of an NBA player goes up then so does the price of a ticket to the game. If you enjoy taking your family to a game of any sorts,tell me it doesn't hurt.
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Ty for simplicity, this post started to hurt my.brain as soon as i saw Obama and Hillary' s names.
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by iamskippy

Ty for simplicity, this post started to hurt my.brain as soon as i saw Obama and Hillary' s names.
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It was simple...it was also demonstrably false. No one can force me to buy a higher-priced ticket, I only buy it if I choose to do so, in which case no one is forcing that burden on me, but rather, I am assuming that responsibility myself.

Liberals aren't very fond of the concept of personal responsibility...

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

If the salary of an NBA player goes up then so does the price of a ticket to the game. If you enjoy taking your family to a game of any sorts,tell me it doesn't hurt.
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Ah, a desperate totalitarian attempt to connect dots.

Here's the thing...if there was a law that said I had to buy season tickets to the Celtics, then yes, it would be hurt. But there isn't. See, there is this thing called free will, by which, the NBA cannot force me to go to a game, it is my choice. If I choose to pay the higher prices, then the only person inflicting that additional financial burden on me, is myself. If I choose not to go to games anymore, and enough people feel the same way, they will be forced to lower prices to get me back.

It's called the free market, and as long as there is some regulation to prevent abuse, it works pretty well.

[Piscator]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

If the salary of an NBA player goes up then so does the price of a ticket to the game. If you enjoy taking your family to a game of any sorts,tell me it doesn't hurt.
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You couldn't pay me enough money to go to an NBA game....

[Fly Rod]

Originally Posted by Piscator

You couldn't pay me enough money to go to an NBA game....

Agreed and for me that is any game.....front row seat at home with instant replay and about 87 cents for bacardi and coke and do not have to wait in line to go wee wee....