The American Chronicle carries a piece on baseball, and the problems fans perceive. Apparently salaries -- which are set by supply and demand -- are perceived are more problematic than steroid-cheats.
Even the steroids abuse was only 22%. The answer that received 51% was the high salaries being paid to baseball players. Interesting is it not? Despite all the media exposure of big name ball players exposed as hypocrites and liars about their steroid use. Despite high ticket prices directly affecting their family economics. Exorbitant salaries are what tick fans off the most.
Perhaps this should not be such a surprise. After all, exorbitant salaries and bonuses have been getting even more media attention than steroids as of late. The public is quickly losing their taste for those being paid ridiculously high salaries and bonuses. We see so many examples of pay far exceeding the value that any one person could offer. If you are the owner of a business, then I say that this is an entirely different matter, but if you are an employee (and even a CEO is an employee), of a publicly help corporation, there should be a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders for reasonable wages.
One argument for high CEO pay is that they are being paid according to their peers. If you do not pay, they will leave and move on. The self serving argument has produced a situation in the USA where a CEO makes over 400 times the earnings of the average worker. The next highest country is 29 times the average worker. The boards of directors that are supposed to oversee companies are composed of CEOs. Why wouldn't they participate in the escalation of salaries and bonuses?
If you argue that the business increases and they deserve these extravagant amounts, I would argue the businesses might be charging too much. If we cut baseball player's salaries then this money flows back to the owners. We then put pressure on the owners to reduce the price of attending a ball game. If we cut executive pay, then shareholders, employees and customers should all benefit.
As a nation, we need to make better judgments as to when enough is enough. Why is it that we so envy power, money and fame? Where has it gotten us? Why are we so concerned about what we have rather than who we are as a human being? What would our daily life be like if we were all more concerned with being good people rather than rich people? All we have to do is establish a mindset of sharing the wealth rather than stealing the wealth.
Interesting comment. We noted the fan survey which rates salaries a problem. On one hand, salaries are determined by the market o supply and demand. Ticket prices too. This is what baseball fans will pay.
On the other hand the high compensation drives the cheating to a degree.
The person's statement that "there should be a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders for reasonable wages" is a weird, weird statement. Is he saying that employees should stop seeking the highest salary they can get in favor of going after what is most beneficial to the owners? That fundamentally misunderstands what the relationships are. The owners and managers have control over player salaries. It is entirely up to them to exercise control as much as they can within the free market. It is a strange brand of socialism - indeed, a perversion of it - to insist that the workers should sacrifice more to the owners.
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