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porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I think some of this is related to radio, tv and internet too. Before radio few people could follow a game live so the audience, or at least live emotional audience, is a lot smaller and that’s pretty aligned to profit. Or put another way, if every Messi or Taylor Swift fan gave 50c every year they’d be filthy rich but that was harder to ached before radio with things being more localised.

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porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A friend shared this a month or so ago and I haven’t been able to check how accurate it is but apparently its soccer player wages in 1999:

Highest soccer earners in 1999

That was a lot of money at the time, but even adjusting for inflation it really doesn’t seem to be the fuckoff money they get now

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- wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I mean, that’s per week… Seems like a shitload of money to me.
  
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  - porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    🤦‍♂️ I missed it was per week. I’ll go hide somewhere now
    
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    porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, so that’s probably about 5-10 million pounds annually today? So they’re earning 10 or so times that amount now but its still very much fuckoff money
    
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