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The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S.
misbach writes "Here is what the 'compensation experts' have to say are the
ten most
overpaid jobs [original article at CBS MarketWatch]. 'Almost no one in America would admit to being
overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what's deserved.
'Fair compensation' is a relative term, yet human-resource consultants and
executive headhunters agree some jobs command excessive compensation that can't
be explained by labor supply-and-demand imbalances.'"
Hey, all high school students and other mindless American consumer minions.
Professional athletes are overpaid.
How about a person who dedicates their lives to savings the lives of others deserve large salaries for their sacrifices. Can Brett Favre perform heart surgery on you when you have a heart attack? Can X sports athlete save your life when you get into a car accident and have the steering wheel broken through your breast plate and you are bleeding into your lungs?
How about the American soldiers who are in front of bullets, dying in a war. Do they deserve large salaries?
How about underpaid/unappreciated jobs? How about stay-at-home Moms? What about community service volunteers? What about volunteer EMT/firefighters?
What about the engineer who dedicated years of his life to ensure that ABS works every single time the brake pedal is pressed in your vehicle? What about the engineer who invented airbags?
The truth is, America, is that the most important jobs in the world, the ones that make real differences in lives every single day, are not the ones you see on ESPN or watch on a football field.
The people who should be honored, especially monetarily, are ER doctors, EMT's, physicists, engineers, Red Cross workers, blood donors, stay-at-home Moms, and many, many others.
Some jackass, most likely black thug who can throw a football doesn't mean shit to the world. The problem with America is that they place more care in the 'dedication and talent' of some idiot on a football field than educating their country, rewarding those who are selfless, appreciating those who work and constantly do great things without anyone noticing, driving science, and making us the greatest people on Earth.
Right now, we care more about football than we do about developing a cure for AIDS or cancer, feeding the hungry, or educating the uneducated. One year of a football players budget could cover what the group cancer researchers/scientists get for a budget for 2-3 years.
Caring more about how far a person can throw a football instead of the real problems and heros or the human race is pathetic. Pretty simple actually.
The parent got modded Insightful??? Yeesh!
The powerful "bent the rules"? What rules? Is there some halcyon past in which everybody everywhere had equal opportunities and resources in life? Oh, guess not...
And I don't think our (I assume you mean USA) economy is "crippled", to any extent. Even the recent recession was one of the shortest and mildest on record. In terms of global economic growth, the US is the primary driver - Europe and Japan certainly aren't going anywhere fast, although an emerging China is making strong gains.
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In economics, there's no such thing as "deserve". Get over it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."