Chase not Practicing

[007BengalsFan]

(08-30-2024, 12:56 PM)Whatever Wrote: To set this up as a real world example, a person is vastly underpaid compared to the market for an employee of their skill set at their job.  On top of that, their boss requires them to come in unpaid for team building activities and can dock their pay if they don't attend.  They are also not free to leave their job and seal employment  at a competitor because they are bound by a non-compete (illegal as of September 4th per the FTC, btw).  And they never got to choose their place of employment to begin with and had to pack their life up and move to a city not of their choosing because all the companies in their field are in league with each other and allow each other to exclusively claim candidates out of college.

But the team can be cutthroat, but the player can't.

You are wrong because this happens in the real world as well.  When you join a union, many of them will not allow you to make top money until you have been there a few years.  Its a wage scale that the new person entering the union had no say in.  You want to come and be part of this union?  You have to agree to the wage scale setup.  If you want to make more money because you are great at your job?  Its too bad, you need to wait.

Lets use the bricklayers union as an example.  Workers who have been in the bricklayers union for many years might make $35 an hour.  A new person joining this union might be forced in to a 4 year apprenticeship program where they start you out at $20 an hour.  You may end up being a great bricklayer after just one year and be as good as the guy that has been there 10+ year.  You cant however demand you should be paid the same pay as those other guys when you still have 3 years left in the apprenticeship program.  If you complain and sit out of work, they will withhold your pay and potentially get rid of you.  Sound familiar?  This happens in the real world too.  The NFL isnt unique in paying new talent less, having a wage scale and forcing people to work several years before they get top dollar.