Capitalism is based on markets. Something is worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it. What is value for money to you, will be worth very little to somebody else. Roger Budden is case in point, there are very few people on here who will pay £4k for an Omega as they would rather spend £200-500 and fettle and fix it until it is at the standard they want, but there are people who will pay to get a low milage exceptionally good example, which needs no work done on it.
It is the same with work, this is a market as well and if you have an exceptional in demand skill then you can demand a lot of money for your services. I can't see many people on here turning down £300k a week for 5 years, so you are made for life, I certainly wouldn't if my particular skills were suddenly in demand. I say good luck to him and everybody else who can demand good money by working on developing their talent and skills, so they are well rewarded for using them.
Premiership football is a very good export earner for this country, so the more top stars we have in the UK, the more foreign earnings and investment they will attract, which we desperately need to help fix the UK's poor balance of payments, not to mention the extra tax helping to reduce the deficit and contribute to our public services. The people I begrudge paying money to support are lazy and breakless, those that are perfectly fit and able, but prefer not to work and expect us to keep them at a level of wealth and lifestyle many hard working poor people can only aspire to.
Without a broad earnings range from rich to poor all you have is poor people in a country and a privileged political elite as can be seen from all of the failed countries over the last 100 years with their failed communist and socialist experiments.
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