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sorry I'm too lazy to read the whole link
but I would guess the difference is when Ray Romano gets a billion dollars a year....all of us with TV sets suffer equally (or thankfully change the channel)...it's not like LA is 'stealing' him from Milwaukee
[I]when Bruce Willis gets 20 Million a movie, it doesn't change the fact that Atom Egoyan can still make a cheap quirky movie that will be watched by his niche of fans,and billions of Bruce Willis fans can go on watching their movies
when you have unequal markets competing for assets, that's where the problems lie[/I]
you don't see that in the NFL and as a result I don't hear nearly as much complaining about whether Brett Favre is overpaid or not...he's a rich guy, like Willis or Romano, but his industry can afford it...and the good people of Green Bay wisconsin don't worry about losing him to Dallas or New York
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You are falling into the fallacy of cost driving ticket prices again. Last I checked an Adam Egoyan film was not substantially cheaper than any other movie. Logically, what you should be asking yourself is, IF Atom Egoyan makes movies for much lower cost, why does seeing one of his films not cost any less than standard Hollywood fare? (As I recall, last time I was home in Calgary (middle of January) I spent $12.00 to see 'Hotel Rwanda' at the Globe and, presumably, the Globe is the type of theatre where you would see Egoyan's films.). Answer? I may prefer Egoyan over any other autre, but obviously this is not true of the general public (by the way I do think he has done some iof early work was quite nteresting).
Bang on in stating the problem is unequal markets. However, stating that, say, Jarome Iginla is worth more in New York City than Calgary is not the same thing as saying players in general are over paid.
Nor does it necessarily mean that a salary cap is the only means of redressing the imbalance.