Hm... Neither. I'm thinking it's a tech constraints. Once you started competing with the world, rather than your little isolated village, it became a Pareto distribution (or worse...), everyone else making nada

denlillaapan

great read, i think he sort of "buried the lede"

4,000 per month monthly salary for experienced teachers in most states. Basketball players are not paid more than teachers; the entire complaint is a basic confusion over an example that everyone thinks they learned, but didn’t actually understand.

there's probably a lot to be said here but in general I think the comparison you are making (as in 

) is that writers, like basketball players, in general operate "at a loss."

it makes me wonder if this has always been the case or are present day, fiat payment schemes/business models to blame.

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siggy47

great read, i think he sort of "buried the lede" 

> Marginal basketball players are paying $65 a month to play, compared to at least $4,000 per month monthly salary for experienced teachers in most states. Basketball players are not paid more than teachers; the entire complaint is a basic confusion over an example that everyone thinks they learned, but didn’t actually understand.

there's probably a lot to be said here but in general I think the comparison you are making (as in https://stacker.news/items/1057784/r/unschooled?commentId=1058011) is that writers, like basketball players, in general operate "at a loss."

it makes me wonder if this has always been the case or are present day, fiat payment schemes/business models to blame.