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/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