Bonus #82 - "Olympians Don't Earn Enough!" Says Twitter (Extra Dose)
Added 2021-08-10 16:00:07 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/Rr1MOuaeYGI
It's my favorite time of the week: BONUS VIDEO DAY! And just a note: I will be uploading an extra Extra Dose this week on Wednesday that will be available to everyone at once. My apologies for not giving you guys the early access, but I think I might be still finishing it up that morning. In the meantime, here's one about the Olympics, which I watched WAY TOO MUCH of this year (honestly, the 3x3 Basketball was pretty addictive).
Well the Olympics have finally come and gone, and all of the 2-week experts will now have to wait until the Winter Games to tell you how much they know about some obscure sport you've never heard them mention once outside of the Olympics. But we did get lots of these "experts" weighing in on how much they feel Olympic athletes should make. Buckley looks at the weird double standard after spending years hearing from the Internet that athletes shouldn't make any money!
Comments
Well that's good news. I would love to do a podcast (maybe this already exists) where I interview winners of gameshows and ask them how much they actually got to keep (since that's all taxed in the US and they take a pretty sizable chunk apparently, so sometimes they just have to decline... even on prizes, like "oh this car is worth $30,000, so you have to pay the taxes on that $30,000 car... OR you can just decline the prize and not get anything")
Adam Buckley
2021-08-13 02:20:42 +0000 UTCAs an American who moved to Canada, you'd be surprised how cocky Americans are about how rich of a country we are.
MiezuteCosplay
2021-08-13 02:07:02 +0000 UTCAt least the amateur ones don't get taxed on the winnings. It was passed after Rio in 2016. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5946/text
Robert Miller
2021-08-13 01:09:05 +0000 UTCThe discourse around this topic generally seems to be "They're athletes, they play a game, why do they deserve anything?" The difference of course is in amateur vs professional sports, it's right there in the name... "amateur" is generally done for nothing, as you get good enough to go "professional" (do something for money). However, many of these sports don't truly have "professional" tours or leagues... many of them do in a way, but then it comes down to my old video that I reference here, the "Athletes get paid too much (or do they?)" video where I discuss the idea that the athletes should make money based on what the owners are making. The Olympics however... 11,000 athletes compete for sometimes like 5 minutes on TV. Not sure what that would or should REALLY be worth. But if millions of people tuned in to watch Archery or Air Pistol competitions every week? Then yes, I'd feel they should make a lot of money doing that, since someone's making a lot of money off them.
Adam Buckley
2021-08-12 18:31:29 +0000 UTCWhat's wrong with wanting a happy medium with the pay? It doesn't need to be a billion dollars, but it also shouldn't be barely anything.
Logan Young
2021-08-12 15:51:07 +0000 UTCAs Buckley once said “you’re worth what someone is willing to pay”
Ash Archer
2021-08-11 21:51:29 +0000 UTCI think the people complaining about athletes making too much money are generally talking about different athletes. Being paid twenty thousand to spend four years becoming the best at fancyjumps: too little. Being paid millions to play football (either kind): too much. Of course the answer is very simply the fact that more people watch one thing than the other, but I get where the complaint comes from.
Pim
2021-08-10 20:47:23 +0000 UTCI also love the arm-chair coaches who would criticize the technique of the athletes who WON GOLD (Vitalina Batsarashkina). Showing everyone how they had absolutely no concept of the Olympic shooting discipline.
Josh McGrath
2021-08-10 16:20:05 +0000 UTC
