Starting around the transition from the Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan era that is when sports started to turn into a race to the bottom, with rampant racial cannibalism. You did not have to jump through all these WS hoops, no pun intended to stay in the league.
I am glad he got paid, but what did he have to sacrifice to earn that billion dollars. We need to find ways to create wealth without cannibalizing each other.
Let say Shawn Fain, UAW takes a high level executive management position at GM or Ford. He now goes around attacking Union workers as overpaid and lazy on CNBC; he tries to setup offshored production facility in Mexico. He lobbys Congress to setup free trade deals with more low wage countries and pushes anti-union laws. His salary is $50 million a year plus stock. Here he sacrifices billions in worker pay and jobs for a meager $50 million salary.
If we had more people like me, there would be more economic prosperity.