AntiCommieBecca with a maga hat
The answer to her is probably the “globalists”. Who are portrayed as gay communists somehow.
Internationalist gay communism is based though. Sadly we’re not a global elite 😞 (yet)
I can’t help but even wonder if those stadiums actually turn a profit?
Regardless, my rural yeehaw high school was a fine point of all of this. My dad kept pointing out how loaded the superintendent and administration was while the school itself was low quality and practically falling apart. There was even this stench of “we suck and we’re proud of it!”
If that shit wasn’t profitable, then it is a sad display of what this country values: us children of poor families may get to engage in some sports until we’re 18 and then it’s off to some backbreaking blue-collar job, or a retail job that’s minimum wage or a buck above if you’re lucky. If you go to college there’s a good chance that porky ain’t in the hiring mood and you get mocked for your arrogance in trying to do social mobility.
And if it is profitable, why the hell would they want to invest in academics or their teachers? They don’t make the superintendent money and after all this country tries to predetermine us rural folk into trades or military. The propaganda that porky is “all set” with college level professionals is all part of the war on education.
I know it’s not the real answer but I just pretend it’s necessary for the sports to bring in the big bucks to fund the massively inflated coach salaries in a giant “chicken and egg” scam where each side of the equation justifies the cost of the other side as part of the same huge fucking scam
As someone from outside the US I’ve always found it baffling that not only does Yankee universities have official sports teams, those teams are also professional teams with huge money involved.
When I went to university, the athletic high point of the year was student unions doing a beer race in inflatable boats on the campus pond.
Bullshit Jobs by is also delving into this question.
Right, can’t be understated that the professional staff infrastructure digs deep into the profit margins. I’m thinking of tutoring companies, they charge something like $60-100/hr for private tutoring and pay their tutors in the $10-20/hr range. The justification is basically that the admin side and advertising/client acquisition costs money. Which is true, but how many people do you need to put up facebook marketplace ads and issue receipts to clients? Like how many fake jobs are you supporting to suck away up to 90% of the hourly wage.
I used to work for one of those companies pre-covid. I was making $15 an hour, mostly because it was easy to have someone else schedule students for me. Then they decided that tutors would just be given a list of clients and be expected to schedule appointments on their own. Having that list was literally the only difference between just doing the whole job on my own and they just gave it to me and expected to still take a cut. I spent the next week explaining the situation to my clients and letting them know that 1) I was about to quit and 2) I would be willing to continue working with their student for significantly less than they were already paying the tutoring company. I proposed that we met halfway between my previous wage and the company’s previous rate. That’s when I found out how much they were being charged and they found out how little of that I was getting. My boss was profiting $85 for every hour I spent tutoring. Every client was shocked that I was making minimum wage when they were having trouble affording me. I didn’t feel right even charging them the ~60 that was halfway, so I offered $45.
Anyway, I ended up poaching literally every single one of my clients because it turns out most people enjoy saving $60 every week. Cushiest and easiest job I ever had. Four clients and about an hour, hour and a half of driving every day. I’d show up to a house and the SAH parent would have some snacks. I’d help the kid make it through high school, pocket what’s closer to $60 of today’s money, and leave for the next one. I went from struggling financially to saving money for the first time working less than 30 hours per week because my boss wanted me to do more of his job.
(Also if anyone is interested in tutoring, I haven’t tutored since covid but I’d be happy to answer questions for anyone that lives within driving distance of a bougie suburb that also would like to make $45/hr, not clickbait)
I used to tutor when I was in grad school, to undergrads. I charged around $45/hour tutoring upper year engineering courses. I only recently found out how much the tutoring companies were charging high schoolers and was like holy fuck I could’ve had so much more disposable income during grad school.
I’m seriously considering shifting back to tutoring. Like even with time spent of finding clients and chasing down payments I imagine it’s possible to make a good living. The main issue I haven’t gamed out how taxes factor in (specifically sales taxes and pension payments). I imagine tutoring full time isn’t something I can get away doing for cash and not repoting on my income tax.
A friend of mine was at a small business tyrant’s tutoring company, and they made him sign a contract saying that he was an independent contractor with a non-compete clause. Obviously illegal and contradictory but it still made it hard for him to keep his clients when he decided to stop being exploited.
