big deal. You got an undergraduate degree. So what? A lot of people have them. I do. What did you study? do people pay you 50 bucks a pop per night to watch you work (hey, you could be a stripper...
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It's supply and demand, folks. It's a free market economy. Why do you guys hate it so much? I mean, why is it that on one hand you ostensibly support it and yet when the players try to maximize their pay by applying the very same free market, capitalism, profit-driven logic, they're villains?
The hypocrisy really knows no end...
Here's an idea: quit your job, start a company. That's how most people who get rich on their own actually get wealthy. When you have achieved in an area to the degree of a guy like Marty Turco, for an example, and are one of the very best at what you do (and there are very few people on this planet that can effectively replace you) then guess what, my friend, you'll be loaded. Until a governing body comes along and tells you that because of the disparity in the wage laws across state lines or something like that, you have to now limit your ability to pay workers what you think they'd be worth to join your company, then you might sing a different tune.
Basically what this amounts to is everybody wants the government off their back until they need the government. Then all of a sudden, unfettered capitalism (when it benefits the workers) is a 'bad' thing. What a mess of contradictions and hypocrisy. Case in point, Tom Hicks, owner of the Dallas Stars (responsible for some of the WORST contracts in recent memory, like Turgeon and Young and Guerin all in one summer) is a major contributor to the Republican Party, the basis of which is a belief in unfettered capitalism. But now, when it suits Hicks' purpose, all of a sudden the 'unfettered market' isn't a good thing anymore, but it must be regulated by a governing body. But apparently that is only the case when it helps out guys like Mr. Hicks.
Hypocrisy of the highest order. Nothing else.