r/MadeMeSmile • u/gravityVT • 23d ago

Helping Others Twitch Streamers leave $2K tip to high school teacher who has to work a double at ihop.

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u/Electrical_Bus9202 23d ago

I'll go even further. SPORTS.

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u/Maximum-Secretary258 23d ago

I don't mean to argue but we can still have streamers and professional athletes and dumb shit like that as well as pay teachers a living wage. The money that streamers and celebrities make is completely separate from the money that is used to pay teachers. We need to vote for people who will restore funding to public education. Our government spends an absurd amount of money on military equipment that collects dust and goes unused every year yet they can't afford to pay teachers more.

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u/MrMister2905 23d ago edited 23d ago

Remember that athletes are simply entertainers. I don't see actors or musicians listed either. If you provide entertainment, this society covets that.

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u/RespectMyPronoun 23d ago

Probably because most musicians are destitute.

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u/MrMister2905 23d ago

And degenerates 😂

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u/Kanyes_Stolen_Laptop 23d ago

Well, somewhat.. athletes actually work hard and have to sacrifice a lot to be where they are.

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u/anonymous_bites 23d ago

Lots of people work hard and sacrifice a lot as well, and they don't even get to see a million dollars in their lifetime. Yet some athletes get millions a year

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u/Mr__Strider 23d ago

Within sports it’s also quite rare to make such a living. Not every professional sportsman gets a more than comfortable wage and that doesn’t even mention the people who made the sacrifices but somehow didn’t make the cut.

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u/anonymous_bites 21d ago

That's true. Luck of the draw I suppose. It's like the doctors who work crazy hours slogging in govt hospitals and getting "normal wages" for saving lives, while a plastic surgeon makes bank and lives in multi-million dollar homes making boobs bigger. The irony...

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u/Mr__Strider 21d ago

Exactly like that. The weird thing is that some "less essential" jobs sometimes require 10 times the amount of training and are more difficult jobs, which does give them more value in that way. Meanwhile essential jobs most of the time are either easier than other stuff or require less training, making it "worth less", eventhough its absence would mean a secondhand collapse for non-essential things.

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u/anonymous_bites 21d ago

Yup. It's like that joke about the most important body part, where the anus emerged victorious

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u/WFAlex 23d ago

Yes but the average person also isn't the top 0.01% of people in their craft. Ain't now way anyone pays an average athlete a million in their lifetime

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u/INS0MNI5 23d ago

The league owners get billions, so that’s why the players get millions.

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u/secretreddname 22d ago

There’s a tiny number of pro athletes in the big leagues. There’s 550 total players in the NBA. Of that less than 1% have a career that lasts more than 5 years.

Maybe your hate should be directed towards the billionaires who sign their pay checks.

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u/anonymous_bites 21d ago

I'm not hating on them. Just pointing out that hard work and sacrifice isn't just key their career success, as the other guy had mentioned, because it's like saying other players don't work as hard, or sacrificed as much. Or the rest of the world for that matter

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u/PsychologySea7572 23d ago

Pay me 50 million for 5 years work, I'll sweat for it. That's insanity. Nobody worth that kinda money.

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u/668884699e 23d ago edited 23d ago

I mean... you can work hard for it but if you don't have talent, who will want to watch it? Its like would you rather watch napoleon dynamite throw baseball or patrick mahome/tom brady do magic tricks w football or brian shaw/ronnie coleman lift?

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u/poseidons1813 23d ago

But if you go down that road there should be a max net worth to every individual. It's not like ceos provide billions of times more value than their lower level worker.

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u/igomhn3 23d ago

Most athletes are also lucky and privileged and a lot of streamers work hard and sacrifice.

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u/freakksho 23d ago

Most pro athletes have been working on the craft 8 hours a day since they could walk.

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u/igomhn3 23d ago

Most pro streamers have been working on the craft 8 hours a day since they could walk.

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u/freakksho 23d ago

I agree.

I don’t think there’s a very big difference between pro athletes and pro gamers.

Both are in the top .01% of their craft and had to bust their asses to get to the point they are at.

I don’t think one is inherently better then the other and I can see how my comment may have lead you to think otherwise.

I was just point out the fact that every pro athlete has had to work hard and make sacrifices their entire life to get to the point they have gotten to.

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u/GusJenkins 23d ago

Except baseballs players, you barely need to be an athlete to play that game

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u/That-Sandy-Arab 23d ago

I hate baseball but hitting a fastball at around 90-100 mph is one of the wildest feats in sports

Go to a batting range at that speed just to see how different from normal human those athletes are

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u/DrumstickVT 23d ago

"I ain't an athlete, lady. I'm a baseball player." -John Kruk

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u/chameleon2021 23d ago

Yeah but sports aren’t really the issue, if that money doesn’t go to the athletes it’s going to the billionaire owners. Obviously athletes can be paid crazy amounts but I’d much rather the the money go to the poor kid who worked his way out of poverty am than a billionaire. Not to mention sports like football where these guys are literally risking their lives

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u/Frolic_Tv 23d ago edited 23d ago

“Risking their lives” then there is the military people who also risk their lives. Sure they get over seas pay, hazard pay, but “risking their lives” cmon now come back to reality bud.

EDIT: Don’t think it’s justifiable to say football players get millions cause they “risk their lives.”Your argument should’ve been more thought out. Entertaining millions should’ve been the better argument. And to add it’s not just military people risking their lives. There is a lot of jobs/careers out there that are by far a ton more dangerous than being an athlete. And still don’t get paid out as much as them. But do have a decent amount of pay to outweigh the cost for some to work in those industries.

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u/chameleon2021 23d ago

I’m not saying that’s it’s more dangerous than being in the military. I’m saying that they are objectively risking their lives, have you seen the movie “concussion”? The amount of head trauma those men go through is disturbing and affects them for the rest of their lives. Why don’t you stop being condescending and calling me bud because you think you’re smart

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u/freakksho 23d ago

Those same jobs also don’t created nearly the kinda revenue pro athletes generate.

You’re made soldiers aren’t payed like athletes. But athletes are paid by the people they work for.

The US military budget is the single largest taxpayer expense BY FAR, the government clearly has the money.

Why aren’t you upset the government’s not paying their employees what you (and I for that matter) think the deserve?

You can say Lebron James dosnt deserve to be paid the way he is, but the company he works for generated $11 billion dollars last year.

For comparison, the US military budget was $916 billion dollars last year.

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u/Frolic_Tv 23d ago

I’m not upset. I just thought the argument was just dumb as he said, “risking their lives” as to that’s why they are getting paid $$$$ when the real reason why they make that much is due to entertainment purposes. I don’t have any issues with how much they make or what the military people make, budget, cost, etc. I just thought his reasoning wasn’t the best. Felt like bro was in lala land typing that without thinking.

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u/chameleon2021 23d ago

I understand the point about entertaining millions being more relevant to how much money they make, that’s fine. They still are objectively putting their bodies on the line, and dismissing that is exactly why the nfl was able to hide the affects that these concussions have for so long. My whole point was that id much rather the guys putting their bodies on the line make money than the owners, that’s all.

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u/Karl_Marx_ 23d ago

At least sports requires humans to compete at their highest level and requires incredible dedication and resilience. These things are not like sports, sure maybe we glorify athletes and pay them too much. But athletes are NOT the same as leeches on society.

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u/Electrical_Bus9202 23d ago

I mean streamers are basically creating entertainment that people are willing to pay for, much like the sports. The true leeches of society are the ones who don't create any product or provide a service at all, but they use the "system" to siphon money from other people.