Reply #11: Yeah, I can see your point.

[MadHound]

But the thing is that whenever you start earning more in a year than most people earn in a lifetime, it is hard for people to be very sympathetic about one's wage issues. Frankly, if I earned seventy million in a year, I would invest ten million or so to live off the interest for the rest of my life and use the interest off of the other sixty million to do good works. Instead this guy is wanting to make ever more money, not satisfied with what he's got. Hard to be sympathetic.

As far as athletes go, at least they have the excuse that they're sacrificing their bodies, their health for their salary. What is this guy sacrificing? Time with his family? Well, if he stopped concentrating on making obscene amounts of money, he would have time for the best things in life. That is a luxury for many, since they get paid so little that they are working all of the time and hardly ever sees their families.