[nickff]

By what measure are the athletes under-paid, and by what measure are the owners and distributors over-paid?

[djbusby]

It's the spread between workers(labor) and owners(capital). Millionaires working for Billionaires could be under paid, the same as 100k-aires are underpaid by 100M-aires.

Overpaid, or extremely wealthy by the global society - but under paid in their "local group" (for lack of better term)

Edit: like when VC say they take the risk - bullshit. They just risk money - labor (athletes, entrepreneur) risk time and health. Those are not renewable - but money is.

[55555]

You define underpaid as being lowly paid compared to their local group but also claim that the group in aggregate is underpaid. Makes no sense.

I think your parent commenter was asking for a citation showing that NFL franchises rake in net profits for owners and another citation showing athletes wages are being held down artificially.

You are presenting ideology as objective truth.

[leetcrew]

> citation showing athletes wages are being held down artificially

this part is not controversial. the NFL has an official policy capping the total player salaries for each team.

[8note]

Local group:

Other athletes including basketball and boxing players. The NFL in particular tries to ensure that individuals don't become brands on their own

Aggregate: athletes as a whole

[vfbgfbgtbbtgtbg]

Are you familiar with sports? The billionaires made their money outside of it. Sports teams often don't make any profits at all.

[tshaddox]

One possible answer: the fact that one is making a profit from the work of the other.