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Originally Posted by H2SO4(aq)
I think that is pretty good chuck of cash for what he did.
since when is 10k pocket change? he may make 4m a year, but when hockey is over its not like he is gonna just be able to slide into a 100k+ job until retirement. he is pretty much making all the money he'll have for the rest of his life while playing in the show.
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When your gross pay is $11,013.70 a day, $10,000 is pocket change.
Why would a guy need to slide into $100k/yr job until retirement, when in a 10 year career at $4M per, he would make what the average north american would have to work 800 years to earn?
Prefessional athlete salaries are truly absurd, I understand why they get paid them, but I still find it astounishing, that a guy who has a high school education (maybe) can make more money by the time he is 25, then a surgeon, who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to become one, and saves lives, can earn in a lifetime.
And yet people always defend the poor players who get fined, and worry about how they are gonna support themselves when they retire at age 35 after earning millions upon millions of dollars.