Complaining about player salaries is pointless

Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Jorge Soler just signed a one-year deal worth more money than you or I will probably make in our respective lifetimes.The other day I saw this image as I scrolled through my Facebook feed:

It reminded me of one of the running jokes on this website where we estimate various dollar amounts in “teacher salaries” because teachers are so woefully underpaid while professional baseball players make a great deal of money. But mostly it made me think how incredibly privileged the person who wrote this post must be that they can’t see the many ways they’ve needed those kinds of people in their lives.

Entertainment is necessary

In the late 1970s, a group of scientists…