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Originally posted by Vick@May 19 2004, 11:08 AM
While I am all for earning as much as possible
the fact that Shaquille O'Neal makes $40,517,858 and schoolteachers are lucky to earn 50,000 a year is appalling
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Why is that appalling?
Is it more appalling than the fact that the CEO of Acme Widgets makes a multi-million dollar bonus for cost saving measures that unemploy the parents of your hypothetical teacher's students?
Guy worked his ass off against, as Peaches pointed out, some pretty daunting odds. Why is he any less deserving of a payoff at whatever the market will support than anyone else?